SUMMARYThis work presents an extension of the goal-oriented error estimation technique to the engineering analysis of three-dimensional linear elastic bodies. In the series of examples shown, the errors are estimated with respect to local displacement and stress components. The paper also introduces novel means to compute lower bounds on the error in the energy norm based on a cost-e ective postprocessing of the upper bound error estimates. The numerical results indicate that the method can be used e ectively for complex engineering applications.
In this paper, a method for deriving computable estimates of the approximation error in eigenvalues or eigenfrequencies of three-dimensional linear elasticity or shell problems is presented. The analysis for the error estimator follows the general approach of goal-oriented error estimation for which the error is estimated in so-called quantities of interest, here the eigenfrequencies, rather than global norms. A general theory is developed and is then applied to the linear elasticity equations. For the shell analysis, it is assumed that the shell model is not completely known and additional errors are introduced due to modeling approximations. The approach is then based on recovering three-dimensional approximations from the shell eigensolution and employing the error estimator developed for linear elasticity. The performance of the error estimator is demonstrated on several test problems.
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