On immunizing five-beta hybrid-stress element models from 'trapezoidal locking' in practical analyses

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 907-920

  Sze, K Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Finite element; Hybrid formulation; Selective scaling; Trapezoidal locking

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN;

FIVE-BETA HYBRID-STRESS ELEMENT MODELS; TRAPEZOIDAL LOCKING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0034135369     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(20000210)47:4<907::AID-NME808>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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