A novel approach to the dynamic analysis of highly deformable bodies

Computers and Structures

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 155-172

  Tsang, T Y ^a   Arabyan, A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEFORMATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ROTATION;

DEFORMABLE BODIES; ELEMENT FIXED MOVING REFERENCE FRAMES;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030567045     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00121-V     Document Type: Article

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