Structural analysis of prestressed Saint Venant-Kirchhoff hyperelastic membranes subjected to moderate strains

Computers and Structures

Volumn 84, Issue 15-16, 2006, Pages 1012-1028

  Gil, Antonio J ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite Element Method; Optimization techniques; Prestressed membranes; Saint Venant Kirchhoff hyperelastic material; Total Lagrangian formulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PRESTRESSED MEMBRANES; SAINT VENANT-KIRCHHOFF HYPERELASTIC MATERIAL; TOTAL LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION;

PRESTRESSED MATERIALS;

EID: 33747662388     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2006.02.009     Document Type: Article

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