Micromechanically based stochastic finite elements: Length scales and anisotropy

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 205-214

  Alzebdeh, K ^a   Ostoja Starzewski, M ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROSTRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

CONSTITUTIVE LAWS; CONTINUUM RANDOM FIELD; ENERGY PRINCIPLES; STOCHASTIC FINITE ELEMENT;

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS;

EID: 0030257984     PISSN: 02668920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0266-8920(96)00015-X     Document Type: Article

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