New assumed strain triangles for non linear shell analysis

Published in Computational Mechanics Vol. 17 (1-2), pp. 107-114, 1995
doi: 10.1007/BF00356483

Abstract

A comparison between new and existing triangular finite elements based on the shell theory proposed by Juan Carlos Simo and co-workers is presented. Particular emphasis is put on the description of new triangles which show a promising behaviour for linear and non linear shell analysis.