%0 Journal Article
%T Object-oriented Programming Applied to the Development of Structural Analysis and Optimization Software
%A Bittencourt
%A Marco L.
%A Silva
%A Cl¨˘udio A. C.
%A Feij¨Žo
%A Ra¨˛l A.
%J Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences
%D 2001
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.1590/S0100-73862001000300002
%X this paper presents the development of a two-dimensional interactive software environment for structural analysis and optimization based on object-oriented programming using the c++ language. the main feature of the software is the effective integration of several computational tools into graphical user interfaces implemented in the windows-98 and windows-nt operating systems. the interfaces simplify data specification in the simulation and optimization of two-dimensional linear elastic problems. nurbs have been used in the software modules to represent geometric and graphical data. extensions to the analysis of three-dimensional problems have been implemented and are also discussed in this paper.
%K object-oriented programming
%K finite element method
%K structural optimization
%K sensitivity analysis
%K c++.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-73862001000300002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en