Analysis of three-dimensional locking-free curved beam element

International Journal of Computational Engineering Science

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 535-556

  Zhu, Z H ^a   Meguid, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D curved beam; Coupled consistent polynomial displacement field; Curvilinear strain description; Finite element method; Membrane locking

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CURVE FITTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRAIN;

COUPLED CONSISTENT POLYNOMIAL DISPLACEMENT FIELD; CURVILINEAR STRAIN DESCRIPTION; MEMBRANE LOCKING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) CURVED BEAM;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 18844460169     PISSN: 14658763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1465876304002551     Document Type: Article

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