NonlinearFiniteElementsforContinuaandStructures

NonlinearFiniteElementsforContinuaandStructuresTedBelytschko,WingKamLiu,BrianMoranNorthwesternUniversity,Evanston,IllinoisThisbookprovidesacomprehensivedescriptionofthemajormethodologiesofnonlinearfiniteelementanalysisforsolidmechanics,asappliedtocontinuaandstructures.Treatmentofthesubjectisintegratedinsuchawaythatthereadercangainanunderstandingofthefundamentalmethods,afeelingforthecomparativeusefulnessofdifferentapproachesandanappreciationofthedifficultiesinherentinnonlinearanalysis.In-depthcoverageofthefollowingisgiven:*LagrangianandarbitraryLagrangianEuleriantreatmentsofcontinua*manyofthemateriallawsusedintoday'ssoftwareandresearch*solutionmethods,includingexplicitandimplicittimeintegrationmethodsandmethodsforequilibriumproblems*basicconceptssuchasstabilityandsmoothness,andtechniquessuchaslinearizationandregularization*methodsforshellsandstructures*contact-impactproblems*elementtechnology,includingmulti-fieldelementsIdealforself-study,nootherbookprovidessuchacomprehensivedescriptionofnonlinearfiniteelementanalysisforsolidmechanics.Thisisaninvaluablereferencenotonlyforfinalyearundergraduates,postgraduates,academicsandengineersworkingonsophisticatedfiniteelementsoftwareandinthefieldofsolidmechanics,butalsoforallusersofnonlinearfiniteelementprograms.