Representation and discretization of arbitrary surfaces for finite element shell analysis

DOI10.1002/nme.1620140605zbMath0398.73081OpenAlexW2149068162MaRDI QIDQ4182079

John F. Abel, Sheng-chuan Wu

Publication date: 1979

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.1620140605

zbMATH Keywords

DiscretizationB-Spline Approximation ProcessFinite Element Shell AnalysisInversion ProcedureModified Lofting MethodSpline Theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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