An accurate four-node shear flexible composite plate element

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1605-1620

  Singh, Gajbir ^a   Raveendranath, P ^a   Vekateswara Rao, G ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Coupled displacement field; Laminated composite plate; Material finite element (MFE); Shear locking

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; POLYNOMIALS; SHEAR STRESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

FOUR-NODE SHEAR FLEXIBLE COMPOSITE PLATE ELEMENT;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0033871032     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(20000330)47:9<1605::AID-NME848>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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