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Keywords:
convergence; equilibrium; plane elastostatics; principle of minimum complementary energy; weak version of Castigliano principle
Summary:
An equilibrium triangular block-element, proposed by Watwood and Hartz, is subjected to an analysis and its approximability property is proved. If the solution is regular enough, a quasi-optimal error estimate follows for the dual approximation to the mixed boundary value problem of elasticity (based on Castigliano's principle). The convergence is proved even in a general case, when the solution is not regular.
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