Geometric stiffness of membranes using symbolic algebra

Engineering Structures

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 759-767

  Levy, Robert ^a   Chen, Chuin Shan ^a   Lin, Cheng Wei ^a   Yang, Yeong Bin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Finite rotations; Geometric stiffness matrix; Membranes; Nonlinear analysis; Symbolic algebra; Wrinkling

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; MEMBRANES; STIFFNESS; VECTORS;

GEOMETRIC STIFFNESS; NONLINEAR MEMBRANE ANALYSIS; SYMBOLIC ALGEBRA;

STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

MEMBRANE; SHELL;

EID: 16544364877     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2003.12.011     Document Type: Article

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