Refined beam elements with arbitrary cross-section geometries

Computers and Structures

Volumn 88, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 283-293

  Carrera, E ^a   Giunta, G ^b   Nali, P ^a   Petrolo, M ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Higher order modeling; Refined beam elements; Unified formulation

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY CROSS SECTION; BEAM AXIS; BEAM ELEMENTS; BEAM SECTIONS; DISPLACEMENT COMPONENTS; FINITE ELEMENT MATRICES; FREE PARAMETERS; GENERALIZED DISPLACEMENTS; HIGHER ORDER MODELING; LOADING CONDITION; REFINED BEAM ELEMENT; STRESS STATE; THIN-WALLED;

AIRFOILS; REFINING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 75749126864     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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