Development of MITC isotropic triangular shell finite elements

Computers and Structures

Volumn 82, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 945-962

  Lee, Phill Seung ^a   Bathe, Klaus Jürgen ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite elements; MITC shell elements; Shell structures; Triangular elements

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; MATERIALS TESTING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TENSORS;

DISCRETIZATIONS; MEMBRANE LOCKING; SHELL GEOMETRY; TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 2342584211     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2004.02.004     Document Type: Article

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