The analytical element stiffness matrix of a recent 4‐node membrane element formulated by the quadrilateral area co‐ordinate method

DOI10.1002/cnm.953zbMath1388.74094OpenAlexW1977834908MaRDI QIDQ5433609

Xiang-Rong Fu, Song Cen, Yu Du, Xiao-Ming Chen

Publication date: 9 January 2008

Published in: Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.953

zbMATH Keywords

finite elementmembrane elementAGQ6-Ianalytical element stiffness matrixquadrilateral area co-ordinate (QAC)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

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