Static and dynamic applications of a five noded horizontally curved beam element with shear deformation

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1801-1819

  Sengupta, Dipak ^a   Dasgupta, Suman ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Curved beam; Dynamic; Elastic base; Higher order; Vibration

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC LOADS; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; POLYNOMIALS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

CURVATURE; STATIC LOADS;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 0031144872     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19970530)40:10<1801::AID-NME138>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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