Checkerboard Shells: A Position-Only Thin-Shell Discretization with Scale-Compatible Completion

DOI10.48550/arXiv.2608.30195MaRDI QIDQ7285135arXivFDO

Authors Junjie Song, Xuanyu Wu, Zhifeng Zhang, Zhaoxi Hong, Xiuju Song, Yixiong Feng, Bingtao Hu, Jianrong Tan

Publication date 31 August 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr We propose Checkerboard Shells: a position-only thin-shell discretization that evaluates the first fundamental form on quadrilateral faces' edge-midpoints and constructs a W-centered second fundamental form from planar face normals. A variational analysis shows smooth consistency does not eliminate lattice-scale blind modes, which are quotiented out using reference-state compatible coordinates to achieve $O(h^2)$ near-isometry for aligned cylinders and various shell benchmarks.

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.30195

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