Abstract: A mounting clamp for joining wooden parts to one another and to the foundation is used particularly for joining boards of outdoor balcony and deck covers. A rectangular, preferably square bottom plate is provided, and two vertical webs which are stamped out of the bottom plate in opposite directions in a U-shaped manner and are vertically bent are provided at a short distance next to each other in the center of the bottom plate relative to the width thereof. Each web supports a vertically projecting nail in the center, the nails extending in opposite directions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for increasing the efficiency of a computer system in finite element simulations by efficient automatic construction of suitable basis functions for computing approximate solutions and one such computer system. In the process as claimed in the invention, a grid covering the simulation region is generated. B-splines defined thereon with supports, which intersect the simulation region, are classified into inner and outer B-splines (5). Then, coupling coefficients for forming linear combinations of inner and outer B-splines are determined (6), and the parameters which determine the resulting basis functions, are stored and output.