Stress Recovery and Error Estimation by Using Forces Induced on Patches of‎ Isogeometric Analysis

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In this paper, a new method is introduced for calculation of stress field in the isogeometric analysis (IGA) method. ‎In this technique, by considering the forces induced on the patches of IGA, the surface denoting the variations of ‎each component of the stress tensor is approximated by the same order of NURBS’ shape functions that are used ‎for approximation of the displacements. This new surface is more accurate compared to the stress surfaces obtained ‎from isogeometric analysis, thereby, can be used error estimation of the IGA. It is shown that this method, which ‎falls in the category of stress recovery methods, is superior to the stress recovery based on the superconvergent ‎points in the IGA. To verify the performance of the method, three examples are taken into consideration and their ‎solutions with this approach as well as the method based on superconvergent points are compared with their exact ‎solutions. The obtained results of these examples indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method and therefore ‎can be considered as a simple and efficient method for error estimation and stress recovery.‎

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