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Solution Techniques in Finite Element Analysis

Nour-Omid, Bahram; Rodrigues, Carlos; Taylor, Robert L.

UCB/SESM-1983/02, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1983-01, 95 pages

The use of the conjugate gradient algorithm to solve the linearized system of equations is considered and compared to rival iterative techniques. Part 2 of this report is the CE-299 report "Thick Plate Analysis by Viscoplastic Finite Elements" by C. Rodrigues.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-83-02.pdf (4 MB)