3.07 - Novel Discretization Concepts

Comprehensive Structural Integrity

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 377-425

  Askes, H ^a   Wells, G N ^a   de Borst, R ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84903431336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-043749-4/03008-1     Document Type: Chapter

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