TRIC: A simple but sophisticated 3-node triangular element based on 6 rigid-body and 12 straining modes for fast computational simulations of arbitrary isotropic and laminated composite shells

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 11-85

  Argyris, John ^a   Tenek, Lazarus ^a,b   Olofsson, Lars ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c LINKÖPING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRATION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STIFFNESS MATRIX;

CARTESIAN MECHANICS; TRIANGULAR SHELL ELEMENTS;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

EID: 0031163751     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(96)01233-9     Document Type: Article

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