Large displacement analysis of thin plates and shells using a flat facet finite element formulation (Q1370773)

We present a large displacement analysis of flat faceted shell elements. Our approach is quite complex and uses advantage of the positions of the rotational degrees of freedom being located at the Loof nodes along the edges and normal to the edges. The theory is developed in incremental form, and the updated Lagrangian approach with the co-rotational formulation is employed. Numerical examples are presented and compared with other published results to verify the proposed formuation.