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Terms

ACCELERATION

ALGEBRAIC EIGENVALUE PROBLEM

AREA COORDINATES

ASPECT RATIO

ASSEMBLY

AUTOMATIC MESH GENERATION

AUTOMATIC NODE RENUMBERING BANDWITH PROFILE WAVEFRONT

AXISYMMETRIC ELEMENT

AXISYMMETRIC THIN SHELL AXISYMMETRICAL THICK SHELL

AXISYMMETRY

BANDWIDTH

BARLOW POINTS

BASIS SPACE

BEAM ELEMENT

BENDING

BODY FORCE VECTOR

BOUNDARY ELEMENT BOUNDARY INTEGRAL

BUBBLE FUNCTIONS

BUCKLING (SNAP THROUGH)

CENTRAL DIFFERENCE METHOD

CHARACTERISTIC VALUE

CHARACTERISTIC VECTOR

CHOLESKY FACTORISATION (SKYLINE)

COEFFICIENT OF VISCOUS DAMPING

COLUMN VECTOR (COLUMN MATRIX)

COMPATIBILITY EQUATIONS

COMPATIBILITY OF STRAINS

COMPLETE DISPLACEMENT FIELD

COMPLEX EIGENVALUES

COMPLEX EIGENVECTORS

COMPOSITE MATERIAL

CONDENSATION STATIC CONDENSATION MODAL CONDENSATION

CONDITION NUMBER

CONDITIONAL STABILITY UNCONDITIONAL STABILITY

CONGRUENT TRANSFORMATION

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD

CONSISTENT DISPLACEMENTS AND FORCES

CONSTANT STRAIN CONSTANT STRESS

CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS

CONSTRAINT EQUATIONS (MULTI POINT CONSTRAINTS)

CONSTRAINTS

CONTACT PROBLEMS

CONTINUOUS MASS MODELS

CONTINUOUS MODELS

CONTOUR PLOTTING

CONVERGENCE REQUIREMENTS

CONVOLUTION INTEGRAL (DUHAMEL INTEGRAL)

COORDINATE SYSTEM

CORRESPONDING FORCES AND DISPLACEMENTS

CRACK ELEMENT (CRACK TIP ELEMENT)

CRACK PROPAGATION (FRACTURE MECHANICS)

CRANK-NICHOLSON SCHEME

CRITICAL ENERGY RELEASE

CRITICALLY DAMPED SYSTEM CRITICAL DAMPING

CYCLIC SYMMETRY

DAMPED EIGENVALUES

DAMPED EIGENVECTORS

DAMPED NATURAL FREQUENCY

DAMPING

DAMPING FACTOR (DECAY FACTOR)

DEGENERATE ELEMENTS

DEGREES OF FREEDOM

DET(J) DET J

DETERMINISTIC ANALYSIS

DEVIATORIC STRESS STRESS DEVIATORS

DIAGONAL DECAY

DIAGONAL GENERALISED MATRIX

DIE-AWAY LENGTH

DIRECT INTEGRATION

DIRECTION COSINES

DISCRETE PARAMETER MODELS (DISCRETISED APPROACH)

DISPLACEMENT METHOD (DISPLACEMENT SOLUTION)

DISPLACEMENT PLOTS

DISPLACEMENT VECTOR

DISSIMILAR SHAPE FUNCTIONS INCOMPATIBLE SHAPE FUNCTIONS

DISTORTION ELEMENT DISTORTION

DRUCKER-PRAGER EQUIVALENT STRESSES

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS

DYNAMIC FLEXIBILITY MATRIX

DYNAMIC MODELLING

DYNAMIC STIFFNESS MATRIX

DYNAMIC STRESSES

DYNAMIC SUBSTRUCTURING

EIGENVALUE PROBLEM

EIGENVALUES LATENT ROOTS CHARACTERISTIC VALUES

EIGENVECTORS LATENT VECTORS NORMAL MODES

ELASTIC FOUNDATION

ELASTIC STIFFNESS

ELECTRIC FIELDS

ELEMENT

ELEMENT ASSEMBLY

ELEMENT STRAINS ELEMENT STRESSES

ENERGY METHODS HAMILTONS PRINCIPLE

ENGINEERING NORMALISATION MATHEMATICAL NORMALISATION

EQUILIBRIUM EQUATIONS

EQUILIBRIUM FINITE ELEMENTS

EQUIVALENT MATERIAL PROPERTIES

EQUIVALENT STRESS

ERGODIC PROCESS

EULERIAN METHOD LAGRANGIAN METHOD

EXACT SOLUTIONS

EXPLICIT METHODS IMPLICIT METHODS

EXTRAPOLATION INTERPOLATION

FACETED GEOMETRY

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM

FIELD PROBLEMS

FINITE DIFFERENCES

FINITE VOLUME METHODS

FLEXIBILITY MATRIX FORCE METHOD

FORCED RESPONSE

FORCING FUNCTIONS

FOURIER EXPANSIONS FOURIER SERIES

FOURIER TRANSFORM

FOURIER TRANSFORM PAIR

FRAMEWORK ANALYSIS

FREE VIBRATION

FREQUENCY DOMAIN

FRONTAL SOLUTION WAVEFRONT SOLUTION

GAP ELEMENT CONTACT ELEMENT

GAUSS POINT EXTRAPOLATION GAUSS POINT STRESSES

GAUSS POINTS GAUSS WEIGHTS

GAUSSIAN ELIMINATION

GAUSSIAN INTEGRATION GAUSSIAN QUADRATURE

GENERALISED COORDINATES

GENERALISED MASS

GENERALISED STIFFNESS

GEOMETRIC STIFFNESS STRESS STIFFNESS

GEOMETRICAL ERRORS

GLOBAL STIFFNESS MATRIX

GROSS DEFORMATIONS

GUARD VECTORS

GUYAN REDUCTION METHOD

GYROSCOPIC FORCES

H-REFINEMENT P-REFINEMENT

HARDENING STRUCTURE

HARMONIC LOADING

HEAT CONDUCTION

HERMITIAN SHAPE FUNCTIONS

HIDDEN LINE REMOVAL

HIGH ASPECT RATIO LOW ASPECT RATIO

HOLONOMIC CONSTRAINTS

HOOKES LAW

HOURGLASS MODE

HYBRID ELEMENTS

HYDROSTATIC STRESS

HYSTERETIC DAMPING

ILL-CONDITIONING ERRORS

ILL-CONDITIONING ILL-CONDITIONED EQUATIONS

IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTION

IMPULSE RESPONSE MATRIX

INCREMENTAL SOLUTION

INELASTIC MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR

INERTANCE (ACCELERANCE)

INERTIA FORCE

INITIAL BUCKLING

INITIAL STRAINS

INTEGRATION BY PARTS

INTERPOLATION FUNCTIONS SHAPE FUNCTIONS

ISOPARAMETRIC ELEMENT

ISOTROPIC MATERIAL

J-INTEGRAL METHODS

JACOBI METHOD

JACOBIAN MATRIX

JOINTS

KINEMATIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

KINEMATICALLY EQUIVALENT FORCES (LOADS)

KINEMATICALLY EQUIVALENT MASS

KINETIC ENERGY

LAGRANGE INTERPOLATION LAGRANGE SHAPE FUNCTIONS

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER TECHNIQUE

LANCZOS METHOD

LEAST SQUARES FIT

LINEAR DEPENDENCE

LINEAR SYSTEM

LOADINGS

LOCAL STRESSES

LOWER BOUND SOLUTION UPPER BOUND SOLUTION

LUMPED MASS MODEL

MASS

MASS MATRIX

MASTER FREEDOMS

MATERIAL LOSS FACTOR

MATERIAL PROPERTIES

MATERIAL STIFFNESS MATRIX MATERIAL FLEXIBILITY MATRIX

MATRIX DISPLACEMENT METHOD

MATRIX FORCE METHOD

MATRIX INVERSE

MATRIX NOTATION MATRIX ALGEBRA

MATRIX PRODUCTS

MATRIX TRANSPOSE

MEAN SQUARE CONVERGENCE

MEMBRANE

MESH DENSITY MESH REFINEMENT

MESH GENERATION ELEMENT GENERATION

MESH SPECIFICATION

MESH SUITABILITY

MINDLIN ELEMENTS

MOBILITY

MODAL DAMPING

MODAL MASS

MODAL STIFFNESS

MODAL TESTING

MODE PARTICIPATION FACTOR

MODE SHAPE

MODELLING

MODIFIED NEWTON-RAPHSON

MOHR COULOMB EQUIVALENT STRESS

MULTI DEGREE OF FREEDOM

MULTI-POINT CONSTRAINTS

NATURAL FREQUENCY

NATURAL MODE

NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS

NEWMARK METHOD NEWMARK BETA METHOD

NEWTON COTES FORMULAE

NEWTON-RAPHSON NON-LINEAR SOLUTION

NODAL VALUES

NODE NODES NODAL

NON-CONFORMING ELEMENTS

NON-HOLONOMIC CONSTRAINTS

NON-LINEAR SYSTEM NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS

NON-STATIONARY RANDOM

NON-STRUCTURAL MASS

NORM

NUMERICAL INTEGRATION

OPTIMAL SAMPLING POINTS

OVER DAMPED SYSTEM

OVERSTIFF SOLUTIONS

PARAMETRIC STUDIES PILOT STUDIES

PARTICIPATION FACTOR

PATCH TEST

PERIODIC RESPONSE FORCE

PHASE ANGLE

PLANE STRAIN PLANE STRESS

PLATE BENDING ELEMENTS

POISSONS RATIO

POST ANALYSIS CHECKS

POST-PROCESSING

POTENTIAL ENERGY

POTENTIAL FLOW

POWER METHOD

PRANDTL-REUSS EQUATIONS

PRIMARY COMPONENT

PRINCIPAL CURVATURE

PRINCIPAL STRESSES

PROFILE

PROPORTIONAL DAMPING

QR METHOD

RADIATION DAMPING

RANDOM ANALYSIS

RANDOM VIBRATIONS

RANK DEFICIENCY

RAYLEIGH DAMPING

RAYLELGH QUOTIENT

REACTION FORCES

RECEPTANCE

REDUCED INTEGRATION

RESPONSE SPECTRUM METHOD

RESTARTS CHECKPOINTS

RIGID BODY DEFORMATIONS

RIGID BODY DISPLACEMENT

RIGID BODY MODES

RIGID LINKS RIGID OFFSETS

ROUNDOFF ERROR

ROW VECTOR ROW MATRIX

SCALARS VECTORS

SECANT STIFFNESS

SECONDARY COMPONENTS

SEEPAGE FLOW

SEISMIC ANALYSIS

SELECTED REDUCED INTEGRATION

SELF ADJOINT EQUATIONS

SELF EQUILIBRATING LOADS

SEMI-LOOF ELEMENT

SHAKEDOWN

SIMPSONS RULE

SIMULTANEOUS VECTOR ITERATION

SINGLE DEGREE OF FREEDOM

SINGLE POINT CONSTRAINT

SINGULAR MATRIX

SKEW DISTORTION (ANGULAR DISTORTION)

SOLID ELEMENTS

SOLUTION DIAGNOSTICS

SOLUTION EFFICIENCY

SPARSE MATRIX METHODS

SPECTRAL DENSITY

SPLINE CURVES

SPURIOUS CRACKS

STATICALLY DETERMINATE STRUCTURE

STATICALLY EQUIVALENT LOADS

STATICALLY INDETERMINATE STRUCTURE REDUNDANT

STATIONARY RANDOM EXCITATION

STEADY STATE RESPONSE

STEP-BY-STEP INTEGRATION

STIFFNESS MATRIX

STRAIN ENERGY

STRESS AVERAGING STRESS SMOOTHING

STRESS CONCENTRATION

STRESS DISCONTINUITIES STRESS ERROR ESTIMATES

STRESS EXTRAPOLATION

STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS

STRESS VECTOR STRESS TENSOR STRAIN VECTOR STRAIN TENSOR

STRESS-STRAIN LAW

SUBSPACE VECTOR ITERATION

SUBSTRUCTURING SUPER ELEMENT METHOD

SUPERPOSITION

SUPPORTS

SURFACE ELEMENT

SYMMETRICAL MATRIX SKEW SYMMETRIC MATRIX HERMITIAN

SYMMETRY

TANGENT STIFFNESS

TETRAHEDRON TETRAHEDRAL ELEMENT

THERMAL CAPACITY

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY

THERMAL LOADS

THERMAL STRAINS

THIN SHELL ELEMENT THICK SHELL ELEMENT

TIME DOMAIN

TRACE OF THE MATRIX

TRANSFINITE MAPPING

TRANSFORMATION METHOD

TRANSIENT FORCE

TRANSIENT RESPONSE

TRANSITION ELEMENT

TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS

ULTIMATE STRESS

UNDAMPED NATURAL FREQUENCY

UNDER DAMPED SYSTEM

UNIT MATRIX

UPDATED LAGRANGIAN TOTAL LAGRANGIAN

UPWINDING IN FLUIDS

VARIABLE BANDWIDTH (SKYLINE)

VELOCITY

VIRTUAL CRACK EXTENSION CRACK PROPAGATION

VIRTUAL DISPLACEMENTS

VIRTUAL WORK VIRTUAL DISPLACEMENTS VIRTUAL FORCES

VISCOUS DAMPING

VISCOUS DAMPING MATRIX

VOLUME DISTORTION VOLUMETRIC DISTORTION

VON MISES EQUIVALENT STRESS TRESCA EQUIVALENT STRESS

WAVE PROPAGATION

WAVEFRONT (FRONT)

WEIGHTED RESIDUALS

WHIRLING STABILITY

WHITE NOISE

WILSON THETA METHOD

WORD LENGTH

YOUNGS MODULUS

ZERO ENERGY MODES ZERO STIFFNESS MODES

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