DISTRIBUTED FINITE-ELEMENT STRUCTURAL-ANALYSIS USING THE CLIENT-SERVER MODEL

The paper presents a distributed computing approach for concurrent fin ite element analysis of truss structures. The client-server model of d istributed computation is applied to the plane frame finite element al gorithm and implemented on SUN workstations. The remote procedure call combined with the ability to create threads of computation allows one to efficiently implement distributed and concurrent programs. The pre sent approach is demonstrated through a typical truss structure to ill ustrate the details of the implementation. This approach can be used f or very large finite element systems.