Structural matrix computations with units

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 174-182

  Austin, Mark A ^a   Lin, Wane Jang ^b   Chen, Xiaoguang G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Maryland State Hwy Administration   (United States)

^c Tuttle Decision System Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

PHYSICAL QUANTITY VARIABLES;

CANTILEVER BEAMS;

EID: 0034227763     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(2000)14:3(174)     Document Type: Article

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