An energy-conserving planar finite beam element for dynamics of flexible mechanisms

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 60-85

  Stander, Nielen ^a,b   Stein, Erwin ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PROBLEM SOLVING; ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

FLEXIBLE MECHANISMS; NEWMARK METHOD; SIMO VU QUOC FORMULATION; TIME STEPPING RULE; ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; ELASTODYNAMICS; FINITE BEAM ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL DISSIPATION;

FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 0030370141     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409610128418     Document Type: Article

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