Improved enhanced strain four-node element with taylor expansion of the shape functions

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 407-421

  Korelc, Jože ^a,b   Wriggers, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enhanced strain method; Finite element method; Symbolic integration

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STRAIN; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ENHANCED STRAIN METHOD; SHAPE FUNCTION; SYMBOLIC INTEGRATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031075734     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19970215)40:3<407::AID-NME70>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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