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As the need for new man-made light-weight materials increases in industries, the development of CAE/CAD tools that can handle such materials is becoming crucial, since the conventional FEM fails to efficiently analyze composite materials with microstructures. In. this study, isoparametric finite elements for micropolar (Cosserat) elasticity have been developed.
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Nakamura, S., Huang, FY. (1988). Isoparametric Finite Elements for Micropolar (Cosserat) Elasticity. In: Radharamanan, R. (eds) Robotics and Factories of the Future ’87. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73890-6_19
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