Two kinds of c0-type elements for buckling analysis of thin-walled curved beams

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 171, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 87-108

  Hu, N ^a   Hu, B ^b   Yan, B ^c   Fukunaga, H ^d   Sekine, H ^d  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chongqing Iron and Steel College ^*  (China)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); BUCKLING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

THIN-WALLED CURVED BEAMS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0032675493     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(98)00246-1     Document Type: Article

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