Static displacement reanalysis of structures using perturbation and padé approximation

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 75-82

  Chen, Su Huan ^a   Yang, Xiao Wei ^a   Wu, Bai Sheng ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Moderate to large modifications of parameters; Pad approximation; Static displacement reanalysis

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

MODERATE TO LARGE PARAMETER MODIFICATION; PADE APPROXIMATION; STATIC DISPLACEMENT REANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033894826     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(200002)16:2<75::AID-CNM308>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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