This chapter provides deeper insights into the verification part of the computational V&V strategy introduced in Sect. 1.1. To be more precise, we investigate the question whether the boundary value problems derived in Chaps. 2 and 3 are solved right by the Galerkin methods presented in Chaps. 4 and 5, i.e. the (mixed) finite element method (based on SCNI), the extended finite element method, and the meshfree element-free Galerkin and reproducing kernel particle methods. For the time being, we restrict our considerations to the linearized elasticity problem (3.28) because this linear problem allows for the development of verification strategies in a more convenient way. Verification strategies applied to the finite hyperelasticity problem will be detailed in Chap. 8.
