An assumed covariant strain based 9‐node shell element
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- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
- Vol. 24 (12) , 2389-2411
Abstract
A new shell element, which is free from serious locking problems and which does not possess hourglass modes, is proposed. Solutions obtained with this element exhibit good convergence and are satisfactorily insensitive to mesh distortion. The element also exhibits good convergence for plates with variable thickness. This element is based on the use of assumed covariant strains which are obtained from the covariant strain field defined with respect to the element natural co‐ordinate system. Only the linear version for thin shell cases is considered. The element performance is tested by application to several standard plate and shell problems. A problem involving variable thickness is also presented.Keywords
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