Making a ®nite element code easier to maintain is achieved by further modularizing it. Due to its two levels of modularity (of procedures and data), object-oriented programming is the method of choice. Its potential is investigated in two bottlenecks of ®nite element programming where so far it has
Object-oriented programming in nonlinear finite element analysis
✍ Scribed by Yves Dubois-Pèlerin; Pierre Pegon
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 947 KB
- Volume
- 67
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0045-7949
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