A two-noded locking-free shear flexible curved beam element

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 265-280

  Raveendranath, P ^a,b   Singh, Gajbir ^b   Pradhan, B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Coupled displacement fields; Curved beam; FEM; Membrane locking; Shear locking

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS; ROTATION; SHEAR DEFORMATION;

COUPLED DISPLACEMENT FIELDS;

CURVED BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 0032786282     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990120)44:2<265::AID-NME505>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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