Improved hybrid stress finite elements with full rotational degrees of freedom for solid and shell analysis

• Main Author: Sim, Catherine Yun Shun.
• Other Authors: Sze, Kam Yim
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Mechanics and dynamics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20527
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The research work presented in this dissertation is on developing hybrid stress finite elements with full rotational degrees of freedom (d.o.f.s) based on an extended Hellinger-Reissner variational principle of linear elastic structural mechanics. Conventional finite elements are based on the minimu...