An improved assumed strain solid-shell element formulation with physical stabilization for geometric non-linear applications and elastic-plastic stability analysis

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 80, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1640-1686

  Abed Meraim, Farid ^a   Combescure, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VERLAINE METZ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Assumed strain method; Elastic plastic stability; Hourglass; Orthogonal projection; SHB8PS solid shell; Shear and membrane locking

Indexed keywords

ASSUMED STRAIN METHODS; ELASTIC-PLASTIC; HOURGLASS; MEMBRANE LOCKING; ORTHOGONAL PROJECTION;

COST REDUCTION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; PLASTICS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STIFFNESS MATRIX; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

STABILIZATION;

EID: 71949103961     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2676     Document Type: Article

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