On the shape of the saw-tooth softening curves for sequentially linear analysis

Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures - Proceedings of EURO-C 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 431-442

  Rots, Jan G ^a   Belletti, Beatrice ^a,b   Invernizzi, Stefano ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BASE CURVES; DISCRETIZATIONS; DIVERGENCE PROBLEMS; INTEGRATION POINTS; LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATERIAL SOFTENING; NEGATIVE SLOPE; NON-LINEAR FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; NOTCHED BEAM; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; SAW-TOOTH; SEQUENTIALLY LINEAR ANALYSIS; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 36348974090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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