A formulation of the QS6 element for large elastic deformations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1437-1454

  Wriggers, Peter ^a   Hueck, Ulrich ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enhanced strain method; Finite elements; Large elastic deformations

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ENHANCED STRAIN METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBILITY; LARGE ELASTIC DEFORMATIONS; MESH DISTORTION; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0030151758     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19960515)39:9<1437::AID-NME905>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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