Solving anti-plane problems of piezoelectric materials by the Trefftz finite element approach

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 461-468

  Qin, Q H ^a,b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anti plane; Finite element; Piezoelectric; Trefftz method

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERMITTIVITY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ANTI-PLANE PROBLEMS; DUAL VARIATIONAL FUNCTION METHOD; ELECTROELASTICITY; TREFTZ METHOD;

PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0142090848     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-003-0450-3     Document Type: Article

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