Triangular thick plate elements based on a hybrid-trefftz approach

Computers and Structures

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 883-894

  Petrolito, J ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT; EXACT SOLUTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SCHEMES; HYBRID STRESS PRINCIPLE; HYBRID-TREFFTZ APPROACH; LOCKING; STIFFNESS FORMULATION; THICK PLATE EQUATIONS; TRIANGULAR THICK PLATE ELEMENTS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POLYNOMIALS; ROTATION; STIFFNESS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0030196055     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00453-X     Document Type: Article

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