Assessment of two fundamental flat triangular shell elements with drilling rotations

Computers and Structures

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 129-139

  Providas, E ^a   Kattis, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); STIFFNESS; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DRILLING ROTATIONS; INEXTENSIONAL BENDING; ROTATION STIFFNESS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 0033726688     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(99)00215-1     Document Type: Article

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