An alternative alpha finite element method with discrete shear gap technique for analysis of laminated composite plates

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 217, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7324-7348

  Thai Hoang, C ^a   Nguyen Thanh, N ^b   Nguyen Xuan, H ^a,c   Rabczuk, T ^b  

^a TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Alpha finite element method (A FEM); Discrete shear gap (DSG); Finite element method; Laminated composite plates; Transverse shear locking

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; ASSUMED STRAIN FIELD; BUCKLING ANALYSIS; DISCRETE SHEAR GAP (DSG); DISCRETE SHEAR GAP METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT; FREE VIBRATION; LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; STIFFNESS MATRICES; SUB-DOMAINS; TRANSVERSE SHEAR; TRANSVERSE SHEAR LOCKING; TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS; TRIANGULAR MESHES;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; DELAMINATION; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; LAMINATING; STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRAIN; VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79952774579     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2011.02.024     Document Type: Article

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