Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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279477 | International Journal of Solids and Structures | 2008 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
This paper addresses an implementation of the upper bound limit analysis theorem using a parallel mixed finite element formulation. The intrinsic characteristics of the adopted upper bound formulation proved to be suitable to adapt it to an efficient parallelization scheme. In order to illustrate the computational power provided by the new parallel processing method, accurate upper bound collapse load estimates, for 3D problems, are produced using a cluster of common PC machines.
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Authors
M. Vicente da Silva, A.N. Antão,