Tracing the equilibrium path beyond compound critical points

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1049-1074

  Kouhia, Reijo ^a   Mikkola, Martti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Branch switching; Continuation algorithm; Finite element method; Liapunov Schmidt Koiter reduction; Multiple bifurcation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BUCKLING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

BRANCH SWITCHING ALGORITHMS; LIAPUNOV-SCHMIDT-KOITER ASYMPTOTIC REDUCTION;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033224254     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19991110)46:7<1049::AID-NME739>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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