A New Eight Nodes Brick Finite Element Based on the Strain Approach

Subject Areas : Engineering

Kh Guerraiche ¹ , L Belounar ² , L Bouzidi ³

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Djelfa University, Batna, Algeria
2 - NMISSI Laboratory, Biskra University, Biskra, Algeria
3 - NMISSI Laboratory, Biskra University, Biskra, Algeria

Received: 2017-12-09 Accepted : 2018-02-08 Published : 2018-03-01

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