Refined non-conforming quadrilateral thin plate bending element

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 3919-3935

  Wanji, Chen ^a   Cheung, Y K ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

C1 continuity requirement; Convergence; Refined non conforming quadrilateral thin plate element

Indexed keywords

BENDING (FORMING); CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLATE METAL; STRAIN;

CONTINUITY REQUIREMENT; REFINED CONSTANT STRAIN MATRIX; REFINED NON CONFORMING QUADRILATERAL THIN PLATE ELEMENT;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031271019     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19971115)40:21<3919::AID-NME243>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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