Geometrically nonlinear formulation for thin shells without rotation degrees of freedom

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 197, Issue 33-40, 2008, Pages 2778-2788

  Dung, Nguyen Tien ^a   Wells, Garth N ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin methods; Geometrically nonlinear; Rotation free; Thin shells

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; LAGRANGE FINITE ELEMENT BASIS FUNCTIONS; THIN SHELLS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 44749084481     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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