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Higher Derivative Explicit One Step Methods for Nonlinear Dynamic Problems

Hoff, Claus; Taylor, Robert L.

UCB/SEMM-1988/07, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1988-09-01, 62 pages

For the solution of a certain class of nonlinear problems in structural dynamics, especially in weak and smooth nonlinearities, a new higher order explicit one step scheme is presented. A weighted residual approach is used which contains new aspects in the design of single step algorithms.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-88-07.pdf (14 MB)