On the choice of local element frame for corotational triangular shell elements

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 819-825

  Battini, Jean Marc ^a   Pacoste, Costin ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Swed Natl Rd Admin Consulting Se ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corotational formulation; Shell finite elements

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

COROTATIONAL TRAINGULAR SHELL ELEMENTS; STABILITY PROBLEMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 5444222478     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.710     Document Type: Article

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