A simple finite element-based framework for the analysis of elastic pseudo-rigid bodies

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1297-1314

  Solberg, Jerome M ^a   Papadopoulos, Panayiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Pseudo rigid bodies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000500038     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990730)45:9<1297::AID-NME631>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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