A unified formulation for triangular and quadrilateral flat shell finite elements with six nodal degrees of freedom

DOI10.1002/CNM.1630070102zbMath0714.73076OpenAlexW2002291806MaRDI QIDQ3200703

Edward L. Wilson, Adnan Ibrahimbegović

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Communications in Applied Numerical Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.1630070102

zbMATH Keywords

drilling degrees of freedommembrane elementsreduced quadrature18\(\times 18\) triangular element stiffness24\(\times 24\) stiffness matrix3- node triangular element4-node quadrilateral thin shell elementdiscrete Kirchhoff quadrilateral plate bending elementsix degrees of freedom per nodestandard discrete Kirchhoff triangular elementsuperposing discrete Kirchhoff plate bending elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Membranes (74K15)

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Cites Work

• A novel membrane finite element with an enhanced displacement interpolation
• A robust quadrilateral membrane finite element with drilling degrees of freedom

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