Response of a nonlinear elastic general Cosserat brick element in simulations typically exhibiting locking and hourglassing

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 255-265

  Loehnert, S ^a   Boerner, E F I ^a   Rubin, M B ^b   Wriggers, P ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cosserat Theory; Finite Elasticity; Finite Element Technology; Hourglassing; Locking; Nearly Incompressible

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); DEFORMATION; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON RATIO; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

COSSERAT THEORY; FINITE ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT TECHNOLOGY; HOURGLASSING; LOCKING; NEARLY INCOMPRESSIBLE;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 23744488297     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-005-0662-9     Document Type: Article

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