An assumed strain formulation of efficient solid triangular element for general shell analysis

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1481-1497

  Kim, Jong Hoon ^a   Kim, Yong Hyup ^a   Lee, Sung Won ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Assumed strain formulation; Solid element approach; Triangular element

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ASSUMED STRAIN FORMULATION; SOLID ELEMENT APPROACH; TRIANGULAR ELEMENT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0033876797     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(20000320)47:8<1481::AID-NME841>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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