Triangular Shell Element for Large Rotations Analysis

AIAA Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2505-2508

  Levy, R ^a,c   Gal, E ^b,d  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Fac of Civ/Environ Engineering   (Israel)

^d Faculty of Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEFORMATION; GEOMETRY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROTATION; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

RIGID-BODY ROTATIONS; TAYLOR-SERIES LINEARIZATION;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 0942267103     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.6854     Document Type: Article

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