Conforming and nonconforming transition plate bending elements for an adaptive h-refinement

Thin-Walled Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-20

  Choi, Chang Koon ^a   Park, Yong Myung ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b POSCO   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; MINDLIN REISSNER PLATE THEORY; TRANSITION PLATE BENDING ELEMENTS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0031141728     PISSN: 02638231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0263-8231(97)00007-4     Document Type: Article

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