An edge-based smoothed finite element method for analysis of laminated composite plates

International Journal of Computational Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Phan Dao, H H ^a   Nguyen Xuan, H ^b   Thai Hoang, C ^a   Nguyen Thoi, T ^a,b   Rabczuk, T ^c  

^a TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Viet Nam)

^c BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

Author keywords

discrete shear gap method (DSG); FEM; laminated composite plates; SFEM; stabilized method

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING ANALYSIS; DISCRETE SHEAR GAP METHODS; EDGE-BASED; EDGE-BASED SMOOTHED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT PROGRAMS; FINITE METHODS; FREE VIBRATION; LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATES; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SFEM; SHEAR-LOCKING; STABILIZED METHOD; STRAIN SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; SYSTEM STIFFNESS; TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES; NUMERICAL METHODS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84874602837     PISSN: 02198762     EISSN: 17936969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219876213400057     Document Type: Article

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