Locking-free Thick-Thin Rod/Beam Element Based on a von Karman Type Nonlinear Theory in Rotated Reference Frames For Large Deformation Analyses of Space-Frame Structures

DOI10.3970/cmes.2010.057.175zbMath1231.74451MaRDI QIDQ3112848

Yongchang Cai, Satya N. Atluri, Hehua Zhu, Jeom Kee Paik

Publication date: 6 February 2012

Full work available at URL: http://www.techscience.com/doi/10.3970/cmes.2010.057.175.html

zbMATH Keywords

locking; large deformation; updated Lagrangian formulation; space frames; thick beam; explicit tangent stiffness; thick rod

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74K10: Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.)

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