Improvements in the membrane behaviour of the three node rotation-free BST shell triangle using an assumed strain approach

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 194, Issue 6-8, 2005, Pages 907-932

  Flores, Fernando G ^a   Oñate, Eugenio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering CIMNE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Large strains; Rotation free; Shells; Triangles

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MEMBRANES; PLASTICITY; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

BASIC SHELL TRIANGLE (BST); THIN SHELL TRIANGULAR ELEMENT; TRANSLATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 10644249219     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2003.08.012     Document Type: Article

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