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Finite Element Models for Large Displacement Contact-Impact Analysis

Hughes, Thomas J. R.; Taylor, Robert L.; Sackman, Jerome L.; Kanok-Nukulchai, Worsak

UCB/SESM-1976/04, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1976-07, 95 pages (500/C23/76/04)

This is the completion of the series of reports: Finite Element Formulation and Solution of Contact-Impact Problems in Continuum Mechanics - IV

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-76-04.pdf (3 MB)