New stress assumption for hybrid stress elements and refined four-node plane and eight-node brick elements

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 2933-2952

  Yeo, Seung Tai ^a   Lee, Byung Chai ^a  

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

Author keywords

Constraint equations; Mesh distortion; Stress assumption; Transformation matrix

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

CONSTRAINT EQUATIONS; HYBRID STRESS ELEMENTS; MESH DISTORTION;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031208596     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19970830)40:16<2933::AID-NME198>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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