TRANSFORMATION PROCEDURES TO ACCELERATE FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSES

Abstract

The method presented is advantageous for structures comprising recurrent part elements by applying the five basic transformations and their combinations, thus eliminating much of tedious data input. Sub structuring avoids the need to produce consecutive stiffness matrices and time-consuming reduction. Recurrent structural parts can be composed to panels - without high-capacity mass storage - suiting the rapid composition of various models in an explicit form (reduced to appropriate points).