ABSTRACT

It will be observed, referring to eqn (21), that both the stiffness matrix K and the load vector F depend upon the integration parameter a, thus eqn (21) determines the vector of node plane displacements as a function of a and so the actual displacements can be evaluated by inverting the transforms using eqn (18). For example suppose we wished to evaluate the displacements on a paticular node plane z = z r,.