Refined 15-DOF triangular discrete degenerated shell element with high performances

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1817-1846

  Chen, Wanji ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Convergence; Displacement function of Timoshenko's beam; Inf sup test; Refined discrete triangular shell element RDTS15

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRAIN;

DISPLACEMENT FUNCTIONS; PATCH TESTING;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 3242778738     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1024     Document Type: Article

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