Trefftz method applied to a moderately thick plate

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1011-1024

  Jin, W G ^a   Cheung, Y K ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Direct and indirect formulations; Moderately thick plate; Trefftz method

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

TREFFTZ METHODS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0033101874     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990310)44:7<1011::AID-NME542>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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