Shear flexible field-consistent curved spline beam element for vibration analysis

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 387-407

  Patel, B P ^a   Ganapathi, M ^a   Saravanan, J ^b  

^a DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Ctr Aero Syst Studs and Analyses   (India)

Author keywords

Consistency; Frequency; Locking; Shear and membrane strains; Spline

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; INTERPOLATION; SHEAR STRESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

CURVED SPLINE BEAM ELEMENT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0032689418     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990930)46:3<387::AID-NME680>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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