MITC technique extended to variable kinematic multilayered plate elements

Composite Structures

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1888-1895

  Carrera, E ^a   Cinefra, M ^a,b   Nali, P ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Esch sur Alzette ^*  (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Carrera Unified Formulation; MITC; Multilayered structures; Refined theories; Shear locking

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC PLATES; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; EQUIVALENT SINGLE LAYERS; FOUR-NODE ELEMENT; FOURTH-ORDER; INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES; KINEMATIC MODELLING; LAYER-WISE; LINEAR ANALYSIS; MIXED INTERPOLATIONS; MULTI-LAYERED; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; MULTILAYERED PLATES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PLATE ELEMENTS; REFINED THEORY; REISSNER-MINDLIN; SHEAR-LOCKING; SPURIOUS MODES; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; THICKNESS DIRECTION;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; KINEMATICS; REFINING;

MINDLIN PLATES;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SHEAR PROPERTY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THICKNESS;

EID: 77950368620     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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