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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 33
DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper V.1

Object-Oriented Finite Element Techniques: Towards a General Purpose Environment

Th. Zimmermann, P. Bomme, D. Eyheramendy, L. Vernier and S. Commend

Laboratory of Structural and Continuum Mechanics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
Th. Zimmermann, P. Bomme, D. Eyheramendy, L. Vernier, S. Commend, "Object-Oriented Finite Element Techniques: Towards a General Purpose Environment", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Developments in Computational Techniques for Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 161-171, 1995. doi:10.4203/ccp.33.5.1
Abstract
The object-orientated approach provides an appropriate context for an integrated description of finite element related techniques within a single unified environment, combining symbolic and numerical manipulations, graphics and expertise.

This paper discusses and illustrates the key features of such an integrated environment which include an object-oriented graphic interactive environment, object-oriented operators for symbolic mathematical derivations, an object-oriented finite element environment, and its extension to object-oriented knowledge based expert assistance.

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