Recent advances in the alternating method for elastic and inelastic fracture analyses

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-58

  Wang, L ^a   Atluri, S N ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRESS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; FRACTURE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL-ANALYTICAL ALTERNATING METHOD;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0030261345     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7825(96)01054-7     Document Type: Article

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