An enhanced computational scheme for the analysis of elastic mechanisms

Computers and Structures

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 369-372

  Fallahi, B ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

BERNOULLI BEAM; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; LAGRANGE EQUATIONS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030735842     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00365-7     Document Type: Article

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