Error-controlled Adaptive Finite Elements in Solid Mechanics

This text offers comprehensive coverage of this new field of automatic adaptation and error estimation, bringing together the work of eight outstanding researchers in this field who have completed a six year national research project within the German Science Foundation. The result is a state-of-the-art work in true reference style. Each chapter is self-contained and covers theoretical, algorithmic and software presentations as well as solved problems. A main feature consists of several carefully elaborated benchmarks of 2D- and 3D- applications.

• First book to go beyond the Finite Element Method in itself
• Covers material from a new research area
• Presents benchmarks of 2D- and 3D- applications
• Fits with the new trend for genetic strategies in engineering