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This is perhaps the simplest and also the earliest example in which the problems associated with constrained media elasticity were identified. It was in response to this challenge that the field-consistency paradigm (i.e. the requirement that a certain strain field interpolation may have to be defined in a manner that only physically realistic constraint conditions will emerge in constrained physical regimes) was proposed. The problem of designing an efficient shear flexible beam element was then modelled mathematically through the definitions and operations of the field-consistency conceptual scheme.
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Prathap, G. (1993). The Shear Flexible Beam Element. In: The Finite Element Method in Structural Mechanics. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3319-9_2
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