The analytical element stiffness matrix of a recent 4-node membrane element formulated by the quadrilateral area co-ordinate method

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1095-1110

  Cen, Song ^a   Du, Yu ^a   Chen, Xiao Ming ^a   Fu, Xiang Rong ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AGQ6 I; Analytical element stiffness matrix; Finite element; Membrane element; Quadrilateral area co ordinate (QAC)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELEMENT STIFFNESS MATRIX; MESH DISTORTION; QUADRILATERAL AREA CO-ORDINATE METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 37249019066     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.953     Document Type: Article

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