Adaptive procedure for the finite element computation of non-linear structural problems

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 443-466

  Hernandez A ^a   Albizuri, J ^a   Aviles R ^a   Amezua, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PLASTICITY; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0344286719     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409910271885     Document Type: Article

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