Variable order secant matrix technique applied to the elastic postbuckling of arches

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 701-710

  Jayachandran, Arul ^a,b   White, Donald W ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CSIR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Arches; Nonlinear finite elements; Postbuckling; Variable order secant matrices

Indexed keywords

ARCHES; BEAMS AND GIRDERS; DEFORMATION; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

BEAM ELEMENTS; CONVERGED SOLUTION; DEGREE OF NON-LINEARITY; INTERNAL STRESSES; ISOPARAMETRIC; MATRIX TECHNIQUES; NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENTS; PLANAR BEAMS; POSTBUCKLING; STRAIN-DISPLACEMENT RELATIONS; STRAIN-ENERGY; TAYLOR EXPANSIONS; VARIABLE ORDER; VARIABLE ORDER SECANT MATRICES;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 49549087479     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.985     Document Type: Article

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