BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//NA-M-81-11
       ENTRY:: January 28, 1996
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science, Numerical
               Analysis Project
       TITLE:: Bifurcation problems for discrete variational inequalities
        TYPE:: Manuscript
      AUTHOR:: Mittelmann, Hans Detlef
        DATE:: April 1981
       PAGES:: 32
    ABSTRACT:: The buckling of a beam or a plate which are subject to
               obstacles is typical for the variational inequalities that
               are considered here. Bifurcation is known to occur from the
               first eigenvalue of the linearized problem. For a
               discretization the bifurcation point and the bifurcating
               braches may be obtained by solving a constrained optimization
               problem. An algorithm is proposed and its convergence is
               proved. The buckling of a clamped beam subject to point
               obstacles is considered in the continuous case and some
               numerical results for this problem are presented.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19960128]
         END:: STAN//NA-M-81-11