Abstract
Efficient computational modelling of problems with material and geometric nonlinearities is very challenging. These problems are often solved with the adaptive finite element method (FEM), which involves error estimation coupled with refinement strategies to automatically find regions for fine and coarse discretization. For these problems meshless methods offer a good alternative involving no remeshing, and only simple insertion or deletion of the nodes. An adaptive element-free Galerkin method (EFGM) is developed here for these types of problems, in which an existing error estimation procedure for linear elasto-static analysis is extended here to nonlinear problems. Maximum entropy (max-ent) shape functions are used instead of the conventional moving least squares (MLS) approximation in the EFGM, which allows implementation of the essential boundary conditions directly. A numerical example is given to demonstrate the implementation and performance of the current approach.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Unknown Host Publication |
Publisher | University of Manchester |
Pages | 251-254 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Publication status | Accepted/In press - 27 Mar 2012 |
Event | 20th UK Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering - University of Manchester, UK, Duration: 27 Mar 2012 → … |
Conference
Conference | 20th UK Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering |
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Period | 27/03/12 → … |
Keywords
- Finite strain
- error estimation
- adaptive modelling
- EFGM