Improving an accurate thin plate element

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 166, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 341-348

  Mohr, G A ^a  

^a IASC   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

THIN PLATE FINITE ELEMENTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0032204866     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(98)00095-4     Document Type: Article

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