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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 9/10
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper IV.2

A Connectivity Coordinate System for Node and Element Ordering

A. Kaveh

Department of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A. Kaveh, "A Connectivity Coordinate System for Node and Element Ordering", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 149-155, 1989. doi:10.4203/ccp.9.4.2
Abstract
Methods are presented for selecting a good starting node and a suitable transversal for their application in nodal numbering of a structure .A new connectivity coordinate system is defined for systematic description of the nodal ordering algorithm. Applications are extended to element ordering for optimizing the bandwidth of flexibility matrices, and bandwidth and frontwidth of finite element models.

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