A hybrid stress quadrilateral shell element with full rotational D.O.F.S

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1785-1800

  Sze, K Y ^a,d   Sim, Y S ^b   Soh, A K ^c,d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ATS Centre   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Drilling rotation; Finite element; Hybrid stress; Shell

Indexed keywords

DRILLING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATERIALS TESTING; ROTATION; STABILIZATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

STRESS FIELD;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 0031141702     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19970530)40:10<1785::AID-NME137>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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