Optimal structural membranes - I. Formulation of a curved quadrilateral element for surface definition

Computers and Structures

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 871-883

  Gosling, P D ^a   Lewis, W J ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PRESTRESSING; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CURVED QUADRILATERAL ELEMENT; RIGID BODY ROTATION; SURFACE DEFINITION;

BUILDING MATERIALS;

EID: 0030313538     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(96)00090-9     Document Type: Article

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