Quadrilateral folded plate structure elements of reduced Trefftz type

  • Sulaiman Abo Diab Tishreen University

Abstract

General strategy for developing finite elements of general geometric shape explained on quadrilateral folded plate structure element ensuring invariance properties is presented in this paper. The basic idea of this strategy consists in using the natural coordinate system only for defining the element geometry and performing the element integration in a mapped biunit square. For defining the approximation functions a suitable local Cartesian coordinate system defined from the directions of the covariant base vectors and the perpendicular contravariant base vectors is used. The origin of the local coordinate system is located at the element centroid (centre of gravity). Hybrid and boundary finite elements of reduced Trefftz type for analysing the folded plate structures are also presented. The folded plate structure element is a combination of a plate bending element and a plane stress element.

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Published
Jan 26, 2023
How to Cite
DIAB, Sulaiman Abo. Quadrilateral folded plate structure elements of reduced Trefftz type. Computer Assisted Methods in Engineering and Science, [S.l.], v. 10, n. 4, p. 391-406, jan. 2023. ISSN 2956-5839. Available at: <https://cames.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/cames/article/view/1054>. Date accessed: 05 nov. 2024.
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