Analysis of large displacements and large rotations of three-dimensional beams by using small strains and unit vectors

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 987-997

  Lee, Kisu ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Co rotational formulation; Large displacements and large rotations of beam; Three dimensional rotations; Unit vectors of cross sections

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROTATION; STRAIN; VECTORS;

COROTATIONAL FORMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ROTATIONS;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 0031375396     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199712)13:12<987::AID-CNM116>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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