The paper presents a class of C0-continuous, flat shell elements based on the Refined Zigzag Theory (RZT) for the analysis of multilayered and curved composite and sandwich structures. The use of the interdependent interpolation strategy allows eliminating the shear-locking phenomenon and introducing the drilling rotation necessary to complete the set of classical nodal degrees of freedom (three displacements and three rotations). Additional kinematic variables are present in RZT, the zigzag rotations around the in-plane axes that measure the normal distortion typical of multilayered structures. An additional “drilling” zigzag rotation is therefore included among the nodal degrees of freedom in order to properly model curved and built-up structures. A stabilization procedure is adopted to suppress spurious zero-energy modes. A three-node triangular and a four-node quadrilateral flat shell element are formulated with 9 degrees of freedom per node. Example problems involving flat and curved multilayered structures are presented and discussed in order to assess the accuracy and convergence properties of the presented elements. Both static response predictions and free vibrations analyses are considered and the comparison is made with analytic RZT solutions, high-fidelity 3D finite element models and FSDT-based flat shell elements.
Multilayered triangular and quadrilateral flat shell elements based on the Refined Zigzag Theory / Gherlone, M.; Versino, D.; Zarra, V.. - In: COMPOSITE STRUCTURES. - ISSN 0263-8223. - ELETTRONICO. - 233(2020), p. 111629.
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Titolo: | Multilayered triangular and quadrilateral flat shell elements based on the Refined Zigzag Theory |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2020 |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2019.111629 |
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