Reduced modified quadratures for quadratic membrane finite elements

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 837-855

  Long, Craig S ^a   Groenwold, Albert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Modified quadratures; Quadratic membrane finite elements; Reduced integration

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; INTEGRATION; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ELEMENT STIFFNESS MATRIX; GAUSS-LEGENDRE EQUATIONS; QUADRATIC INTERPOLATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 4644328699     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1090     Document Type: Article

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