Lagrange multipliers and the primal-dual method in the non-linear static equilibrium of multibody systems

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 463-472

  Avilés, Rafael ^a   Ajuria, Goizalde ^a   Bilbao, Armando ^a   Vallejo, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Constrained optimization; Multibody systems; Non linear analysis; Static equilibrium

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS;

MULTIBODY SYSTEMS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHODS; NONLINEAR STATIC EQUILIBRIUMS; PRIMAL DUAL METHODS;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 0032073094     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199805)14:5<463::AID-CNM165>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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