Large deflection analysis of elastic space membranes

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 264-294

  Tsiatas, G C ^a   Katsikadelis, J T ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

AEM; BEM; Large deflections; Non linear; Space membranes

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEMBRANES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POISSON EQUATION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ANALOGUE EQUATION METHOD (AEM); ELASTIC SPACE MEMBRANES; LARGE DEFLECTION ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEMBRANES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POISSON EQUATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 30744443470     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1499     Document Type: Article

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