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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 92 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0898-1221
• DOI: 10.1016/s0898-1221(96)90263-1

✦ Synopsis

Handbook o [ Numerical Analysis. Volume IV: Finite Element Methods (Part 2); Numerical Methods [or Solids (Part 2). Edited by P.G. Ciarlet and J.L. Lions. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (1996). 974 pages. $187.50, Dfl. 300.00. Contents:

General preface. Finite element methods (Part 2). Origins, milestones and directions of the Finite Element Method--A personal view (O.C. Zieukiewicz). Automatic mesh generation and finite element computation (P.L. George). Numerical methods for solids (Part 2). Limit analysis of collapse states (E. Christiansen). Numerical methods for unilateral problems in solid mechanics (J. Haslinger, I. Hlav~i~ek and J. Ne~as). Mathematical modelling of rods (L. Trabucho and J.M. Viafio).