An electrical circuit theoretical method for time- and frequency-domain solutions of the structural mechanics problems

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1485-1507

  Ekinci, A Suat ^a   Atalar, Abdullah ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Asymptotic waveform evaluation (AWE); Circuit simulation; Electrical modelling of mechanical systems; Finite element modelling; Structural mechanics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003159813     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0207(19990810)45:10<1485::aid-nme642>3.0.co;2-b     Document Type: Article

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