Analysis of Cosserat materials with Voronoi cell finite element method and parametric variational principle

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 197, Issue 6-8, 2008, Pages 741-755

  Zhang, H W ^a   Wang, H ^a   Chen, B S ^a   Xie, Z Q ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cosserat theory; Parametric quadratic programming model; Parametric variational principle; VCFEM

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

PARAMETRIC QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING MODEL; PARAMETRIC VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE; VORONOI CELL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 36048975741     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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