A theory and finite element formulation of shells at finite deformations involving thickness change: Circumventing the use of a rotation tensor

Archive of Applied Mechanics - Tập 65 - Trang 194-216 - 1995
C. Sansour1
1Faehgebiet Maschinen-elemente und Maschinenakustik, TH Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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A nonlinear shell theory, including transverse strains perpendicular to the shell midsurface, as well as transverse shear strains, with exact description of the kinematical fields, is developed. The strain measures are derived by considering theGreen strain tensor of the three-dimensional shell body. A quadratic displacement field over the shell thickness is considered. Altogether seven kinematical fields are incorporated in the formulation. The kinematics of the shell normal is described by means of a difference vector, avoiding the use of a rotation tensor and resulting in a configuration space, where the structure of a linear vector space is preserved. In the case of linear constitutive equations, a possible consistent reduction to six degrees of freedom is discussed. The finite element formulation is based on a hybrid variational principle. The accuracy of the theory and its wide range of applicability is demonstrated by several examples. Comparison with results based on shell theories formulated by means of a rotation tensor are included.

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