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The upper bound property for solid mechanics of the linearly conforming radial point interpolation method (LC-RPIM). (English) Zbl 1198.74123

Summary: It has been proven by the authors that both the upper and lower bounds in energy norm of the exact solution to elasticity problems can now be obtained by using the fully compatible finite element method (FEM) and linearly conforming point interpolation method (LC-PIM). This paper examines the upper bound property of the linearly conforming radial point interpolation method (LC-RPIM), where the Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) are used to construct shape functions and node-based smoothed strains are used to formulate the discrete system equations. It is found that the LC-RPIM also provides the upper bound of the exact solution in energy norm to elasticity problems, and it is much sharper than that of LC-PIM due to the decrease of stiffening effect. An effective procedure is also proposed to determine both upper and lower bounds for the exact solution without knowing it in advance: using the LC-RPIM to compute the upper bound, using the standard fully compatible FEM to compute the lower bound based on the same mesh for the problem domain. Numerical examples of 1D, 2D and 3D problems are presented to demonstrate these important properties of LC-RPIM.

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74S30 Other numerical methods in solid mechanics (MSC2010)
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