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Published in: Meccanica 4-5/2018

13-10-2017

An efficient flat shell element

Authors: Mohammad Rezaiee-Pajand, Majid Yaghoobi

Published in: Meccanica | Issue 4-5/2018

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Abstract

Up to now, various flat shell’s elements are created by combining plane and bending plate elements. In the case of complicated problems with coarse distorted mesh, only using efficient element leads to the accurate responses. These kinds of the elements are insensitive to the distortion. In fact, they can identify and remove the related errors. In this paper, two internal and boundary fields are deployed in a hybrid functional for formulating the proposed plane element. The method is established based on the optimum strain states. Furthermore, Trefftz functionals for independent internal and boundary fields are employed to formulate the suggested bending element. In this procedure, the optimum strain states construct the internal field, and element’s boundary field is achieved by considering the beam behavior. Finally, the high efficiency of author’s element is assessed by solving several numerical samples.
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Metadata
Title
An efficient flat shell element
Authors
Mohammad Rezaiee-Pajand
Majid Yaghoobi
Publication date
13-10-2017
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Meccanica / Issue 4-5/2018
Print ISSN: 0025-6455
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9648
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-017-0772-4

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