SUMMARYThe concepts and potential advantages of local and global least squares smoothing of discontinuous finite element functions are introduced.The relationship between local smoothing and the 'reduced' integration' technique is established.
Examples are presented to illustrate the application of the two smoothing techniques to the finite elementThe paper concludes with some practical recommendations for discontinuous finite element function stresses from several structural analysis problems.smoothing.
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