In this research paper, the formulation of a new three-dimensional sector element based on the strain approach is presented for plate bending problems and linear static analysis of circular structures. The proposed element has the three essential external degrees of freedom (Ur, Vθ and W) at each of the eight corner nodes. The displaceme...

For the nonlinear analysis of structures using the well known Newton-Raphson Method, the tangent stiffness matrices of the elements must be constructed in each iteration. Due to the high expense required to find the exact tangent stiffness matrices, researchers have developed novel innovations into the Newton-Raphson method to reduce the cost and time required by the analysis. In this paper, a ...

Many readers will find the title of this book misleading – at least, at first sight. This is because ‘network’ is a heavily overloaded term used to denote relational data in so vast a number of applications that it is far from surprising that ‘network analysis’ means different things to different people. To name but a few examples, ‘network analysis’ is carried out in areas such as project plan...