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Instabilities induced by coarse meshes for a nonlinear shell problem

M.A. Crisfield (Imperial College, London)
X. Peng (FEA Ltd, Kingston‐upon‐Thames, London)

Engineering Computations

ISSN: 0264-4401

Article publication date: 1 September 1996

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Abstract

Presents a range of numerical results obtained from the geometrically nonlinear analysis of a cantilevered cylindrical shell. Shows that, while the fine‐mesh solution involves no limit points, as the mesh is coarsened, an increasing series of “false limit points” is encountered.

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Crisfield, M.A. and Peng, X. (1996), "Instabilities induced by coarse meshes for a nonlinear shell problem", Engineering Computations, Vol. 13 No. 6, pp. 110-114. https://doi.org/10.1108/02644409610128445

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