A Plate Bending Kirchhoff Element Based on Assumed Strain Functions

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

F Boussem ¹ , L Belounar ²

1 - Biskra University, BP145 Biskra 07000, Algeria
2 - NMISSI Laboratory, Biskra University, BP145 Biskra 07000, Algeria

Received: 2020-08-05 Accepted : 2020-10-05 Published : 2020-12-01

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