Journal
ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONS
Volume 20, Issue 7-8, Pages 896-925Publisher
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/02644400310502036
Keywords
shell structures; strain measurement; shear strength
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This paper focuses on the development of a new class of eight-node solid finite elements, suitable for the treatment of volumetric and transverse shear locking problems. Doing so, the proposed elements can be used efficiently for 3D and thin shell applications. The starting point of the work relies on the analysis of the subspace of incompressible deformations associated with the standard (displacement-based) fully integrated and reduced integrated hexahedral elements. Prediction capabilities for both formulations are defined related to nearly-incompressible problems and an enhanced strain approach is developed to improve the performance of the earlier formulation in this case. With the insight into volumetric locking gained and benefiting from a recently proposed enhanced transverse shear strain procedure for shell applications, a new element conjugating both the capabilities of efficient solid and shell formulations is obtained. Numerical results attest the robustness and efficiency of the proposed approach, when compared to solid and shell elements well-established in the literature.
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