Instabilities induced by coarse meshes for a nonlinear shell problem
- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Engineering Computations
- Vol. 13 (6) , 110-114
- https://doi.org/10.1108/02644409610128445
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.Keywords
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