Ingredients for a general purpose stochastic finite elements implementation

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 168, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 19-34

  Ghanem, Roger ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

SPECTRAL STOCHASTIC FINITE ELEMENT METHODS (SSFEM);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0033528038     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(98)00106-6     Document Type: Article

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