A triangular shear-flexible finite element for moderately thick laminated composite plates

DOI10.1016/0045-7825(83)90104-4zbMath0506.73077MaRDI QIDQ1837022

Richard H. Gallagher, G. R. Bhashyam

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0045-7825(83)90104-4

zbMATH Keywords

numerical results; transverse shear deformation; element stiffness matrix; case of symmetrically laminated plate; desirable convergence characteristics; different support and loading conditions; eighteen degrees of freedom; element of triangular shape; isotropic, orthotropic and anisotropic plates; numerically exact integration; strain energy in terms of those components; total and flexural displacement components; wide range of meshes and thickness-to-span ratios

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74E10: Anisotropy in solid mechanics

74K20: Plates

74S05: Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics

74E30: Composite and mixture properties

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