Nonlinear formulations of a four-node quasi-conforming shell element

Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 189-250

  Lomboy, Gilson Rescober ^a   Suthasupradit, Songsak ^b   Kim, Ki Du ^b   Onate E ^c  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING CIMNE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILINEAR MATERIALS; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS; ELASTO-PLASTIC; ELEMENT MATRIX; EXPLICIT CONSTRUCTIONS; FAILURE CRITERIA; GEOMETRIC AND MATERIAL NONLINEARITIES; GEOMETRIC NONLINEAR FORMULATION; LAGRANGIAN; LAMINATE COMPOSITES; LAYER CONCEPT; LINEAR FORMULATION; MATERIAL NONLINEAR; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MATRIX; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NON-LINEARITY; NONCONFORMING ELEMENT; NONLINEAR FORMULATION; POSTBUCKLING BEHAVIOUR; PROGRESSIVE FAILURE; QUASI-CONFORMING SHELL ELEMENT; SHELL ELEMENT; STEEL REINFORCEMENTS; STRESS RESULTANTS; TENSILE CRACKING; TENSION STIFFENING;

BUILDING MATERIALS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; PLASTICITY; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STRAIN HARDENING;

REINFORCEMENT;

EID: 70350147383     PISSN: 11343060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11831-009-9030-9     Document Type: Article

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