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Elasto-Plastic and Damage Analysis of Plates and Shells

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-3-540-79351-9

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This book presents a finite element model for the elasto-plastic and damage analysis of thin and thick shells. Linear elastic, inelastic and softening behaviors caused by damage in structural shells, as well as large rotations are investigated.


Subject: Engineering, Bauschinger effect, Damage in shells, Porosity, Scalar damage variable, Thick, thin plates and shells, explicit stiffness matrix, kinetic hardening, modeling, numerical methods, shear and membrane locking, shell finite element, stress resultant based yield surface