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Asymmetric Shell Elements Based on a Corrected Updated-Lagrangian Approach

P. Areias^1,2,3, T. Rabczuk⁴, D. Dias-da-Costa^5,6

1 Corresponding Author. ISI search: areias p*; email: pmaa@uevora.pt, pareias@civil.ist.utl.pt, Ph.: +351 96 3496307, Fax: +351 266745394, URL: http://evunix.uevora.pt/~pmaa/
2 Physics Department, University of Évora, Colégio Luís António Verney, Rua Romão Ramalho, 59, 7002-554 Évora, Portugal
3 ICIST
4 Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Marienstraße 15, 99423 Weimar, Germany
5 INESC Coimbra, Rua Antero de Quental 199, 3000-033 Coimbra
6 Civil Eng. Dept., University of Coimbra, Rua Luís Reis Santos, 3030-788 Coimbra, Portugal