Development of a new quadrilateral thin plate element using area coordinates

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 190, Issue 8-10, 2000, Pages 979-987

  Soh, A K ^a   Zhifei, Long ^b   Song, Cen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING MOMENTS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POLYNOMIALS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CARTESIAN COORDINATES; GENERALIZED CONFORMING METHOD; QUADRILATERAL THIN PLATE ELEMENTS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0034317004     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(99)00457-0     Document Type: Article

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