ParCYCLIC: Finite element modelling of earthquake liquefaction response on parallel computers

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1207-1232

  Peng, Jun ^a   Lu, Jinchi ^b   Law, Kincho H ^a   Elgamal, Ahmed ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain decomposition; Earthquake; Finite element; Liquefaction; Parallel computation; Sparse matrix

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIQUEFACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE LIQUEFACTION RESPONSES; PARALLEL COMPUTERS; SERIAL CODES; SPARSE MATRIX COEFFICIENTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIQUEFACTION;

EID: 3543086228     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.384     Document Type: Article

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