Continuum based three-dimensional shell element for laminated structures

Computers and Structures

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-62

  Klinkel, S ^a   Gruttmann, F ^a   Wagner, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRAIN;

THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHELL ELEMENT;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0345237265     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(98)00222-3     Document Type: Article

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