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3D solid element (type 4 - elastic or elastic-perfectly-plastic) for the ANSR-II program

Mondkar, Digambar P.; Powell, Graham H.

UCB/EERC-80/22, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1980-07, 41 pages (555.6/M642/1980/3S)

This report describes a three-dimensional nonlinear finite element developed for the ANSR-II computer program. The report contains a description of the element characteristics, the theoretical formulation, and a computer program user's guide.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-80-22.pdf (2 MB)