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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
13. Contact with Shell- and Beam-Elements
Author : Wilhelm Rust
Published in: Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis in Structural Mechanics
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
In case of beam elements only one dimension, in case of shell elements the two directions of the reference plane, usually the mid-surface, are discretised. They both represent three-dimensional system. For beams in 2d the height resp. the distance of the outer edges from the axis, for shells the thickness must be taken into account. Neither the contact of two beams in 3d nor the contact of shell edges is considered here (Fig. 13.1).