Zero energy-error mechanism of the combined hybrid method and improvement of Allman's membrane element with drilling d.o.f.'s

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 241-250

  Zhou, Tian Xiao ^a   Xie, Xiao Ping ^b  

^a Aeronautical Computing Technique Research Institute   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bubbles; Finite element; Method of high performance; Mixed hybrid; Rotation

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

LOW-ORDER DISPLACEMENT; ZERO ENERGY-ERROR MECHANISM;

VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 1542377457     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.669     Document Type: Article

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