Engineering Computations: Volume 20 Issue 4

The penalty boundary method for combining meshes and solid models in finite element analysis

B.W. Clark, D.C. Anderson

The penalty boundary method (PBM) is a new method for performing finite element analysis using a regular overlapping mesh that does not have to coincide with the geometric…

The large rotations theory of elasto‐viscoplastic shells subjected to the dynamic and thermal loads

B. Bouhafs, K. Woznica, P. Klosowski

In this paper, the problem of the elasto‐viscoplastic dynamic and thermal behaviour of geometrically non‐linear plates and shells is studied under the assumption of small strains…

A hybrid crossover operator for structural optimisation based on commonality in genetic search

C.A. Conceição António, I.A. Lhate

A new design framework for crossover operator is proposed based on the commonality concept. In the reproduction process the resulting hybrid crossover operator includes a local…

Indirect formulations for symmetric Galerkin BEM and space derivative problems

G.Y. Yu

An indirect symmetric Galerkin BEM (SGBEM) is applied to 2D potential problems in this paper. Based on the assumption that solutions from different methods should be the same, the…

FEM and BEM parallel processing: theory and applications – a bibliography (1996‐2002)

Jaroslav Mackerle

This paper gives a bibliographical review of the finite element and boundary element parallel processing techniques from the theoretical and application points of view. Topics…