The partition of unity method for the elastically supported beam

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 152, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 1-18

  Babuška, Ivo ^a   Zhang, Zhimin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; FUNCTIONS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TOUGHNESS;

PARTITION OF UNITY METHOD (PUM); TIMOSHENKO BEAM;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 0031675521     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(97)00231-4     Document Type: Article

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