Rigorous improvement of semi-analytical design sensitivities by exact differentiation of rigid body motions

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-91

  Van Keulen, F ^a   De Boer, H ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design sensitivity; Rigid body motions; Semi analytic; Shells

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

DESIGN SENSITIVITY; RIGID BODY MOTIONS; SEMI ANALYTICAL METHOD;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0032073177     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19980515)42:1<71::AID-NME350>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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