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The effect of the application of an incremental method is the approximation of the three-dimensional nonlinear equations of finite elasticity by a sequence of linear problems. We give here sufficient conditions which guarantee the convergence of such a method.
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Bernadou, M., Ciarlet, P.G. & Jianwei, H. On the convergence of the semi-discrete incremental method in nonlinear, three-dimensional, elasticity. J Elasticity 14, 425–440 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00125611
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