Assessment of two a posteriori error estimators for elasticity problems

The main focus of this paper is on the evaluation of local a posteriori error estimation techniques for the finite element method (FEM). The standard error estimation techniques are presented for the coupled displacement fields appearing in elasticity problems. The two error estimators, the element residual method (ERM) and Zienkiewicz–Zhu (ZZ) patch recovery technique, are evaluated numerically and then used as drivers for a mesh adaptation …