A COROTATIONAL, UPDATED LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION FOR GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF SHELL STRUCTURES

被引:16
作者
JIANG, L [1 ]
CHERNUKA, MW [1 ]
PEGG, NG [1 ]
机构
[1] DEF RES ESTAB ATLANTIC, DARTMOUTH, NS B2Y 3Z7, CANADA
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10.1016/0168-874X(94)90097-3
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O29 [应用数学];
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070104 ;
摘要
A co-rotational, updated Lagrangian formulation for geometrically nonlinear analysis of shells is presented. In this finite element procedure, a standard updated Lagrangian formulation is employed to generate the tangent stiffness matrix, and a co-rotational theory is used for updating element strain, stress and internal force vectors during the Newton-Raphson iterations. Large rotation theory has been accommodated to take into account the nonvectorial characteristic of the rotational degrees-of-freedom. The present procedure is ideally suited for implementation in existing linear finite element programs and its effectiveness has been demonstrated by a number of numerical examples.
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