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S.N. Atluri
Mathematical and Computational Engineering
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The Finite Element Method in the 1990’s: a Personal Perspective
The primary objective of this paper is to pay the most sincere tribute to a close friend, and a giant of the discipline of engineering analysis in this century, Professor Olek Zienkiewicz, who is the single mo...
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Microcomputers
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Erratum to: Towards Computer Aided Surgery: efractive Refractive Eye Surgery Simulations
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Erratum to: Solution Technique for a Coupled System of Equations Describing Advection-Dominated Transport and Biotransformations in the Subsurface
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Evaluation of K-Factors and Weight Functions for 2-D Mixed-Mode Multiple Cracks by the Boundary Element Alternating Method
The concept of the Schwartz-Neumann alternating method [1,2], in conjunction with the boundary element method to solve for the stresses in an uncracked body, and an analytical solution for an embedded 2-D crack s...
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Computational Implementation of an Internal Time Constitutive Equations in Finite Deformation Plasticity
Finite element implementation of an internal time elasto-plastic constitutive equation that involves the plastic spin associated with Mandel’s material director is considered for finite strain deformations. A ...
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Non-Hyper-Singular Integral-Representations for Velocity (Displacement) Gradients in Elastic/Plastic Solids Undergoing Small or Finite Deformations
New integral representations for deformation (velocity) gradients in elastic or elasto-plastic solids undergoing small or large deformations are presented. Compared to the cases wherein direct differentiation ...
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Time-Finite Element Method for the Constrained Dynamics of a Rigid Body
Currently, there is a renewed interest in the study of multi-body-dynamics and its application in many fields of engineering. The mathematical model of a rigid body is useful whenever the overall motion, invol...
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Generation Phase Analysis of Dynamic and Visco-Plastic Crack Propagation in Non-Isothermal Wide Plates
This paper is concerned with a visco-plastic FEM analysis of crack run-arrest experiments of nonisothermal wide plates, which were performed as a part of the Heavy-Section Steel Technology (HSST) program in U....
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Finite-Element-Alternating Method for Analysis of Cracked Three-Dimensional Solids
The finite-element-alternating method is used to analyze part-elliptic circumferential surface cracks in cylinders. The method showed excellent convergence characteristics and yielded accurate stress-intensity...
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A Finite-Element Alternating Method for a Cost-Effective Determination of Weight-Function and S. I. F.’s for Multiple Cracks in Mixed-Mode Fracture
It is well known that a combination of the Schwarz alternating method and the finite element method is a efficient numerical method to calculate stress intensity factors of engineering structural components. N...
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Dynamic Analysis of Finitely Stretched and Rotated 3-D Space-Curved Beams
A novel theory and its computational implementation are presented for the analysis of strongly nonlinear dynamic response of highly-flexible space-beams that undergo large overall motions as well as elastic mo...
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Analysis of Traveling Wave Responses of Structures
The prediction of transient response of structures, in the form of traveling waves, is very important for controlling the dynamic behavior of structures. It is well known that the standard semi-discrete form o...
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Multi-Field Variational Problems in Computational Mechanics
A set of multi-field variational problems, which may be summarized from the genera] mixedhybrid finite element methods in comptational mechanics, are investigated. The existence, uniqueness, and convergence pr...
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Some Recent Developments in Finite-Strain Elastoplasticity Using the Field Boundary Element Method
A new boundary integral equation is derived directly for velocity gradients in a finite strain elasto-plastic solid. These integral equations for velocity gradients do not involve hyper-singularities (when the...
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An Endochronic Approach in Small-Deformation Computational Elasto-Plasticity and Creep
A synopsis of a recently developed methodology for computational small deformation elasto-plasticity and creep analyses, based on a variant of an endochronic theory proposed by Valanis [1], is presented. The a...
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Nonlinearities in the Dynamics and Control of Space Structures: Some Issues for Computational Mechanics
This article deals with nonlinearities that arise in the study of dynamics and control of highly flexible large-space-structures. Broadly speaking, these nonlinearities have various origins: (i) geometrical: due ...
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Hybrid and Mixed Finite Elements in Fluid Mechanics
In this paper certain new concepts in the solution of Navier Stokes equations, for an incompressible fluid flow problem, using mixed and hybrid finite elements, are presented. These new methods are compared an...
