Refined consistent formulation of a curved triangular finite rotation shell element

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2803-2820

  Van Keulen, Fred ^a   Booij, Jan ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Finite rotations; Shells

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ROTATION;

CONSTANT STRAIN TRIANGLE; TANGENT OPERATOR;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0030213647     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19960830)39:16<2803::AID-NME977>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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