An assessment of quasi-Newton sparse update techniques for nonlinear structural analysis

DOI10.1016/0045-7825(81)90122-5zbMath0463.73076OpenAlexW2040555039MaRDI QIDQ1153746

Layne T. Watson, D. J. Vanden Brink, Manohar P. Kamat

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000854/

zbMATH Keywords

concentrated loadgeometrically nonlinear problems of structural analysisshallow elastic archsnap-through responseunconstrained minimization of nonlinear functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Newton-type methods (49M15) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Membranes (74K15)

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