A new higher-order hybrid-mixed curved beam element

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 925-940

  Kim, Jin Gon ^a   Kim, Yoon Young ^a  

^a SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Curved beam element; Field consistency; Hybrid mixed formulation; Nodeless degrees of freedom

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INTERPOLATION;

HYBRID-MIXED CURVED BEAM ELEMENT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0032207355     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19981115)43:5<925::AID-NME457>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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