Unification of Kirchhoff and Reissner-Mindlin plate bending elements

European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, ECCOMAS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Kikuchi, Fumio ^a   Ishii, Keizo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Quint Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assumed transverse shear strains; Energy orthogonal formulation; Kirchhoff elements; Plate bending; Reissner Mindlin elements

Indexed keywords

ENERGY-ORTHOGONAL FORMULATION; KIRCHHOFF; PLATE BENDING; REISSNER-MINDLIN; TRANSVERSE SHEAR STRAINS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MINDLIN PLATES; SHEAR STRAIN;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84893396332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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