https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2900-3160
Abstract
This work proposes a new quadrilateral shell element to analyze large deformations or rotations of membrane or shell structures. The element is an improvement of the previously proposed gradient-deficient quadrilateral elements. The proposed element adopts three techniques to enhance its universality and efficiency. First, an enriched field is added to make the element immune to in-plane mesh distortions. Second, local numerical curvilinear coordinates are used for curved surfaces where global curvilinear coordinates cannot be obtained analytically. Third, the slope vector of the element is obtained by cross-producting the two gradient vectors only on each node but interpolated inside the element to ensure continuity, especially for complex quadrilateral meshes. Additionally, this processing maintains the linear relationships between the shape functions and nodal coordinates, allowing the pre-integral of the elastic tensors. Several numerical examples show that this new element is universal for those irregularly curved surfaces and immune to mesh distortions. In addition, the efficiency is much higher compared to the traditional quadrilateral element.
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