An assumed strain approach avoiding artificial thickness straining for a non‐linear 4‐node shell element

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 899-909

  Betsch, P ^a   Stein, E ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

assumed strain approach; finite element method; non linear shell elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989463351     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1640111104     Document Type: Article

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