• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.16 no.3 s.70
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• pp.295-303
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• 2004

In this paper, an improved four-node Reissner-Mindlin plate-bending element with enhanced assumed strain field is presented for the analysis of isotropic and laminated composite plates. To avoid the shear locking and spurious zero energy modes, the transverse shear behavior is improved by the addition of a new enhanced shear strain based on the incompatible displacement mode approach and bubble function. The "standard" enhanced strain fields (Andelfinger and Ramm, 1993) are also employed to improve the in-plane behaviors of the plate elements. The four-node quadrilateral element derived using the first-order shear deformation theory is designated as "14EASP". Several applications are investigated to assess the features and the performances of the proposed element. The results are compared with other finite element solutions and analytical solutions. Numerical examples show that the element is stable, invariant, passes the patch test, and yields good results especially in highly distorted regimes.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.292-295
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 평판구조물의 정적 및 동적해석에 사용할 목적으로 성능이 향상된 평판유한요소를 제시하였다. 이 요소는 비적합변위형과 선택적 감차적분방법 그리고 대체전단변형률장을 복합적으로 적용하여 각각의 장점들을 포함하는 향상된 거동을 보여주고 있다. 또한 비적합변위형의 적용으로 발생되는 조각시험의 실패 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 직접수정법을 평판유한요소의 개선에 사용하였다. 대표적인 검증문제에 대한 수치해석작업을 통하여 본 연구에서 개발한 요소는 가상적인 제로에너지모드 및 전단잠김현상의 발생과 같은 문제를 나타내지 않음을 알 수 있었다. 특히 찌그러진 형상으로 모형화 한 경우에 있어서도 전단잠김현상이 발생하지 않았다. 본 연구에서 수행한 동적반응해석 시험에 있어서도 이론해와 잘 일치하는 결과를 보여주었다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.311-320
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• 2005

In this paper an enhanced quadratic finite element for static and dynamic analysis of plate structures is presented. The performance of a proposed plate element is improved by the coupled use of non conforming displacement modes, the selective integration scheme, and the assumed shear strain fields. An efficient direct modification method is also applied to this element to solve the problem such as failure of the patch test due to the adoption of non conforming modes. The proposed quadratic finite element does not show any spurious mechanism and does not produce shear locking phenomena even with distorted meshes. It is shown that the results obtained by this element converged to analytical solutions very rapidly tough numerical tests for standard benchmark problems. It is also noted that this element is applicable to transient dynamic analysis of Mindlin plates.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.147-158
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• 2004

For stiffened plates composed of composite materials, many researchers have used a finite element method which connected isoparametric plate elements and beam elements. However, the finite element method is difficult to reflect local behavior of stiffener because beam elements are transferred stiffness for nodal point of plate elements, especially the application is limited in case of laminated composite structures. In this paper, for analysis of laminated composite stiffened plates, 3D shell elements for stiffener and plate are employed. Reissner-Mindlin's first order shear deformation theory is considered in this study. But when thickness will be thin, isoparamatric plate bending element based on the theory of Reissner-Mindlin is generated by transverse shear locking. To eliminate the shear locking and virtual zero energy mode, the substitute shear strain field is used. A deflection distribution is investigated for simple supported rectangular and skew stiffened laminated composite plates with arbitrary orientation stiffener as not only variation of slenderness and aspect ratio of the plate but also variation of skew angle of skew stiffened plates.