A physically stabilized and locking-free formulation of the (SHB8PS) solid-shell element

Authors

  • Farid Abed-Meraim Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Matériaux ENSAM CER de Metz, UMR CNRS 7554 4 rue Augustin Fresnel, F-57078 Metz
  • Alain Combescure Laboratoire de Mécanique des Contacts et des Solides INSA de Lyon, UMR CNRS 5514 18-20 rue des Sciences, F-69621 Villeurbanne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/REMN.16.1037-1072

Keywords:

SHB8PS solid-shell, hourglass, shear and membrane locking, assumed strain method, orthogonal projection

Abstract

In this work, the formulation of the SHB8PS finite element is reviewed in order to eliminate some persistent membrane and shear locking phenomena. This is a solid-shell element based on a purely three-dimensional formulation. In fact, the element has eight nodes as well as five integration points, all distributed along the “thickness” direction. Consequently, it can be used for the modeling of thin structures, while providing an accurate description of the various through-thickness phenomena. The reduced integration has been used in order to prevent some locking phenomena and to increase computational efficiency. The spurious zero-energy modes due to the reduced integration are efficiently stabilized, whereas the strain components corresponding to locking modes are eliminated with a projection technique following the Enhanced Assumed Strain (EAS) method.

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2007-09-13

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Abed-Meraim, F. ., & Combescure, A. . (2007). A physically stabilized and locking-free formulation of the (SHB8PS) solid-shell element. European Journal of Computational Mechanics, 16(8), 1037–1072. https://doi.org/10.13052/REMN.16.1037-1072

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