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A complete approach for the determination of the complex constitutive behaviour of textile composites through finite element simulation is presented in this paper. In this work, simulations of different loading cases are carried out on…
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The present work deals with the formulation of a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for two dimensional structural problems. The contribution is split in two parts: in part I, the elastic problem is discussed, while in part II [3] the method is…
An algorithm is devised for solving minimization problems with equality constraints. The algorithm uses first-order derivatives of both the objective function and the constraints. The step is computed as a sum between a steepest-descent…