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A rotation-free shell triangle for the analysis of kinked and branching shells

✍ Scribed by Fernando G. Flores; Eugenio Oñate

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
380 KB
Volume
69
Category
Article
ISSN
0029-5981

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Abstract

This paper extends the capabilities of previous BST and EBST rotation‐free thin shell elements to the analysis of kinked and branching surfaces. The computation of the curvature tensor is first redefined in terms of the angle change between the normals at the adjacent elements. This allows to deal with arbitrary large angles between adjacent elements and to treat kinked surfaces. A relative stiffness between elements is introduced to consider non‐homogeneous surfaces. This idea is latter generalized to deal with branching shells. Several linear and non‐linear examples are presented showing that the formulation leads to the correct results. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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