Eight-node quadrilateral double-curved surface element for membrane analysis

Computers and Structures

Volumn 84, Issue 31-32, 2006, Pages 2151-2158

  Hegyi, Dezso ^a   Sajtos, István ^a   Geiszter, György ^b   Hincz, Krisztián ^c  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b Research Group for Computational Structural Mechanics ^*  (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Curved membrane element; Dynamic relaxation method; Nonlinear continuum mechanics

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEMBRANES;

CURVED MEMBRANE ELEMENT; DYNAMIC RELAXATION METHOD; NONLINEAR CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

RELAXATION PROCESSES;

EID: 33751521202     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2006.08.046     Document Type: Article

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