Performance of low-order triangular elements during plastic flow

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 70-87

  Heeres, O M ^a   De Borst, R ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Plastic flow; Triangular element

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; KINEMATICS; PLASTICITY; POLYNOMIALS; STRAIN; TENSORS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

KINEMATIC CONSTRAINTS; PLASTIC STRAIN; SOIL MODELS; LOW-ORDER TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS;

PLASTIC FLOW;

EID: 0032638103     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409910251283     Document Type: Article

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