A locking-free finite element method for Naghdi shells

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 119-133

  Bramble, James H ^a   Tong, Sun ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Locking; Mixed finite element; Shell

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

ARBITRARY GEOMETRIC COEFFICIENTS; LOCKING FREE FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; NAGHDI SHELL PROBLEMS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0039990632     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(97)00234-3     Document Type: Article

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