Accelerated initial stiffness schemes for elastoplasticity

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 579-599

  Sloan, Scott W ^a   Sheng, Daichao ^a   Abbo, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b Formation Design Systems   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elastoplastic; Initial stiffness method; Iteration acceleration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

INITIAL STIFFNESS METHOD; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

COULOMB CRITERION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; MOHR THEORY; NUMERICAL METHOD; STIFFNESS;

EID: 0034065545     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9853(200005)24:6<579::AID-NAG84>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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