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An efficient co‐rotational formulation for curved triangular shell element
Authors:Zhongxue Li  Loc Vu‐Quoc
Affiliation:1. Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, ChinaDepartment of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, U.S.A.
Abstract:A 6‐node curved triangular shell element formulation based on a co‐rotational framework is proposed to solve large‐displacement and large‐rotation problems, in which part of the rigid‐body translations and all rigid‐body rotations in the global co‐ordinate system are excluded in calculating the element strain energy. Thus, an element‐independent formulation is achieved. Besides three translational displacement variables, two components of the mid‐surface normal vector at each node are defined as vectorial rotational variables; these two additional variables render all nodal variables additive in an incremental solution procedure. To alleviate the membrane and shear locking phenomena, the membrane strains and the out‐of‐plane shear strains are replaced with assumed strains in calculating the element strain energy. The strategy used in the mixed interpolation of tensorial components approach is employed in defining the assumed strains. The internal force vector and the element tangent stiffness matrix are obtained from calculating directly the first derivative and second derivative of the element strain energy with respect to the nodal variables, respectively. Different from most other existing co‐rotational element formulations, all nodal variables in the present curved triangular shell formulation are commutative in calculating the second derivative of the strain energy; as a result, the element tangent stiffness matrix is symmetric and is updated by using the total values of the nodal variables in an incremental solution procedure. Such update procedure is advantageous in solving dynamic problems. Finally, several elastic plate and shell problems are solved to demonstrate the reliability, efficiency, and convergence of the present formulation. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords:co‐rotational framework  curved triangular shell element  large rotation  vectorial rotational variable  assumed strain  symmetric tangent stiffness matrix
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