An efficient curved beam finite element

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 2629-2652

  Litewka, Przemyslaw ^a   Rakowski, Jerzy ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arch element; Difference equations; Locking effects; Polynomial shape functions

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); CALCULATIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRAIN;

EULER-BERNOULLI BEAM; MEMBRANE LOCKING EFFECTS; POLYNOMIAL SHAPE FUNCTIONS; SHEAR EFFECTS; TIMOSHENKO BEAM;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031189881     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19970730)40:14<2629::AID-NME179>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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