Performance of the QMITC element in two-dimensional elasto-plastic analyses

Computers and Structures

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1099-1129

  Dvorkin, E N ^a   Assanelli, A P ^a   Toscano, R G ^a  

^a Center for Industrial Research Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); ELASTOPLASTICITY; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE; STRAIN;

ELEMENT FORMULATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL QMITC ELEMENT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0030107089     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00212-X     Document Type: Article

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