Computational aspects of the Cosserat finite element analysis of localization phenomena

Computational Materials Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 303-315

  Sharbati, E ^a   Naghdabadi, R ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Computational effort; Cosserat theory; Elastic plastic analysis; Finite element analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRESS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; COSSERAT THEORY; ELASTIC-PLASTIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 33750429996     PISSN: 09270256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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