Instabilities induced by coarse meshes for a nonlinear shell problem

M.A.Crisfield1, X.Peng2
1Imperial College London
2FEA Ltd, Kingston‐upon‐Thames, London

Tóm tắt

Presents a range of numerical results obtained from the geometrically nonlinear analysis of a cantilevered cylindrical shell. Shows that, while the fine‐mesh solution involves no limit points, as the mesh is coarsened, an increasing series of “false limit points” is encountered.

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Tài liệu tham khảo

10.1108/eb023760

10.1002/nme.1620350907

10.1243/03093247V061020

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