Microstructural disorder, mesoscale finite elements and macroscopic response

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 455, Issue 1989, 1999, Pages 3189-3199

  Ostoja, Martin ^a   Tarzewski, S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational mechanics; Finite elements; Mesoscale; Microstructural disorder; Random media; Stochastic finite elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746435733     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1999.0446     Document Type: Article

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