Enhanced assumed strain elements and locking in membrane problems

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 165, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 155-174

  Braess, Dietrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING;

ENHANCED ASSUMED STRAIN (EAS); HU-WASHIZU PRINCIPLE; VOLUME LOCKING;

STRAIN;

EID: 0032476389     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(98)00037-1     Document Type: Article

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