Allman's triangle, rotational DOF and partition of unity

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 837-858

  Tian, Rong ^a   Yagawa, Genki ^b  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drilling degrees of freedom; Generalized finite element method; Partition of unity; Rotation; The 1984 Allman's triangle

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); STIFFNESS MATRIX;

ALLMAN'S TRIANGLE; DRILLING DEGREES OF FREEDOM; GENERALIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARTITION OF UNITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

EID: 33846271395     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1790     Document Type: Article

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