Formulating an effective generalized four-sided element

DOI10.1016/j.euromechsol.2012.02.012zbMath1348.74324OpenAlexW2037250597MaRDI QIDQ335148

Mohammad Rezaiee-Pajand, Majid Yaghoobi

Publication date: 2 November 2016

Published in: European Journal of Mechanics. A. Solids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechsol.2012.02.012

zbMATH Keywords

finite elementplane problemquadrilateral elementoptimization conditionsstrain states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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