Family of shear-deformable shell finite elements for composite structures

Computers and Structures

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 287-297

  Brank, Bostjan ^a,b   Carrera, Erasmo ^c  

^a SLOVENIAN NATIONAL BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR STRESS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

FOUR NODED MIXED FINITE ELEMENT; INDEPENDENT TRANSVERSE SHEAR FIELDS; INTERLAMINAR SHEAR STRESS CONTINUITY; PIECEWISE LINEAR VARIATION; REISSNER MIXED VARIATIONAL FORMULATION; STRAIN VARIATIONAL APPROACH;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

EID: 0033898224     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(99)00153-4     Document Type: Article

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