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Meshless finite element analysis: A fallacy or reality?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1998

LOUIS KOMZSIK
Affiliation:
The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation, Los Angeles, CA 90041, U.S.A.

Abstract

In the late 1980s someone in the CAD software arena coined the phrase in the main title. A decade passed by and the appealing idea is still not realized. Is it ever going to be or is there an inherent fallacy in the idea? The following is the author's position on the subject, admittedly biased by a structural engineering background.

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© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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