Engineering Computations: Volume 17 Issue 1

Accurate computation of design derivatives for plates and shells under transient dynamic loads

A. Dutta, C.V. Ramakrishnan

Design sensitivities of plates and shells under transient dynamic loads with constraints on displacements and stresses are likely to be highly erroneous if proper care is…

Interface element including point‐to‐surface constraints for three‐dimensional problems with damage propagation

J.P.M. Gonçalves, M.F.S.F. de Moura, P.M.S.T. de Castro, A.T. Marques

An interface finite element for three‐dimensional problems based on the penalty method is presented. The proposed element can model joints/interfaces between solid finite…

Automatic metric advancing front triangulation over curved surfaces

C.K. Lee

A 3D surface mesh generation scheme is suggested for the triangulation of general bi‐variate surfaces. The target surface to be meshed is represented as a union of…

A general purpose system for finite element analyses in parallel

I.M. Smith

A system for doing finite element computations in parallel is described. It is general purpose in the sense that it can be used across a wide range of finite element…

Finite strip method: 30 years A bibliography (1968‐1998)

Richard Friedrich

This bibliography contains references to papers, conference proceedings, theses and books dealing with finite strip, finite prism and finite layer analysis of structures…