A new volumetric and shear locking-free 3D enhanced strain element

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 20, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 896-925

  Alves De Sousa, R J ^a,b   Natal Jorge, R M ^b   Fontes Valente, R A ^a,b   Cesar De Sa J M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Shear strength; Shell structures; Strain measurement

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; PLASTICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SHEAR STRESS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

INCOMPRESSIBLE DEFORMATIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE ELASTICITY; TRANSVERSE SHEAR LOCKING PROBLEMS; VOLUMETRIC LOCKING;

STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0344687447     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400310502036     Document Type: Article

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