• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제6권8호
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• pp.921-937
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• 1998

A new four-node degenerated shell element with drilling degrees of freedom (DOF) is proposed. Allman-type displacement approximation is incorporated into the formulation of degenerated shell elements. The approximation improves in-plane performance and eliminates singularities of system matrices resulted from DOF deficiency. Transverse shear locking is circumvented by introducing assumed covariant shear strains. Two kinds of penalty energy are considered in the formulation for the purpose of suppressing spurious modes and representing true drilling rotations. The proposed element can be applied to almost all kinds of shell problems including composite laminated shell structures and folded shell structures. Numerical examples show that the element is of good accuracy and of reasonably fast convergence rate.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2002년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.169-176
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• 2002

This paper is concerned with development of an enhanced quadratic Mindlin plate bending element. The behavior of the proposed plate element is further improved by the coupled use of non-conforming displacement modes, the selectively reduced integration scheme, and the assumed shear strain fields. The improvement may be attributable to the fact that the merits of these improvement techniques are merged in the formation of the new element in a complementary manner. The proposed quadratic finite element passes the patch tests, does not show spurious mechanism, and does not produce shear locking phenomena even with distorted meshes. It is shown that the element produces reliable solutions through numerical tests for standard benchmark problems. It is also noted that the element is applicable to transient dynamic analysis of Mindlin plates.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.729-737
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• 2017

Piezoelectric composite laminates are a powerful material system that offers vast options to improve structural behavior. Successful design of piezoelectric adaptive structures and testing of control laws call for highly accurate, reliable and numerically efficient numerical tools. This paper puts focus onto linear and geometrically nonlinear static and dynamic analysis of smart structures made of such a material system. For this purpose, highly efficient linear 3-node and 4-node finite shell elements are proposed. Both elements employ the Mindlin-Reissner kinematics. The shear locking effect is treated by the discrete shear gap (DSG) technique with the 3-node element and by the assumed natural strain (ANS) approach with the 4-node element. Geometrically nonlinear effects are considered using the co-rotational approach. Static and dynamic examples involving actuator and sensor function of piezoelectric layers are considered.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.255-262
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 아이소-지오메트릭 기법을 기반으로 민들린 후판에 대한 형상 설계민감도 해석법을 제시하였다. 아이소-지오메트릭 기법은 정확한 기하학적 형상의 표현, 요소 사이의 높은 연속성 등 바람직한 강점들을 가지고 있으며 궁극적으로는 해석해로의 빠른 수렴성과 정확한 설계민감도를 제공한다. 선형 형상함수를 사용하는 유한요소법과는 달리 아이소-지오메트릭 기법에서는 높은 차수의 NURBS 기저함수를 활용하여 CAD 형상의 법선벡터와 곡률을 정확하게 고려한다. 전단 잠김(Shear locking) 현상을 극복하기 위해서 선택적 감소적분(Selective reduced integration) 기법을 사용하였다. 이 간단한 방법은 복잡한 정식화 과정 없이 정확한 아이소-지오메트릭 형상 설계민감도 해석을 수행한다. 굽힘 문제에 대한 수치예제를 통하여 제안된 아이소-지오메트릭 해석과 유한요소 해석을 비교하였으며, 유한차분 설계민감도와 비교하여 아이소-지오메트릭 형상 설계민감도는 매우 정확함을 확인하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.83-114
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• 2003

A new simple 3-node triangular flat-shell element with standard nodal DOF (6 DOF per node) is proposed for the linear and geometrically nonlinear analysis of very thin to thick plate and shell structures. The formulation of element GT9 (Long and Xu 1994), a generalized conforming membrane element with rigid rotational freedoms, is employed as the membrane component of the new shell element. Both one-point reduced integration scheme and a corresponding stabilization matrix are adopted for avoiding membrane locking and hourglass phenomenon. The bending component of the new element comes from a new generalized conforming Kirchhoff-Mindlin plate element TSL-T9, which is derived in this paper based on semiLoof constrains and rational shear interpolation. Thus the convergence can be guaranteed and no shear locking will happen. Furthermore, a simple hybrid procedure is suggested to improve the stress solutions, and the Updated Lagrangian formulae are also established for the geometrically nonlinear problems. Numerical results with solutions, which are solved by some other recent element models and the models in the commercial finite element software ABAQUS, are presented. They show that the proposed element, denoted as GMST18, exhibits excellent and better performance for the analysis of thin-think plates and shells in both linear and geometrically nonlinear problems.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.481-494
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• 2001

본 논문은 철근 콘크리트 구조물의 비탄성 해석을 수행하기 위하여 개발된 9절점 퇴화 쉘 요소에 대하여 기술하였다. 개발된 쉘 유한요소는 퇴화고체기법과 함께 구조물에서 발생하는 횡 전단 변형효과를 고려하기 위하여 Reissner-Mindlin (RM)가정을 도입하였다. RM가정을 바탕으로 한 퇴화 쉘 요소는 쉘의 두께가 얇거나, 즉 종횡비가 작거나, 균일하지 않은 유한요소망을 사용할 경우 구조물의 강성이 과대하게 계산되는 강성과대현상(Locking phenomenon)이 나타나게 된다. 강성과대현상은 선택적 감차 적분, 비 적합 모드, 가변형도 등을 사용하여 개선하는데 특히 가변형도법에 바탕을 둔 대체변형도는 많은 유한요소에 성공적으로 적용되어 왔다. 그러나 이와는 대조적으로 콘크리트의 비탄성 해석에 가변형도법을 도입하고 그 성능을 조사한 사례는 매우 적다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 가변형도법과 미시적 재료모델을 바탕으로 RM 쉘 요소를 정식화하고 미를 유한요소프로그램으로 개발하였다. 개발된 철근 콘크리트 쉘 요소의 성능은 수치예제를 통하여 검증하였다. 수치예제로부터 개발된 쉘요소를 이용하여 구해진 해석결과가 실험결과 또는 다른 해석결과에 근접함을 알 수 있다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.209-220
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• 2000

보강된 판 및 쉘구조의 기하학적 비선형해석을 수행하기 위하여, total lagrangian formulation에 근거한 증분 평형방정식을 적용하고, 강도행렬 산정시 회전각의 2차항을 포함시켜 기하학적 비선형 해석시 해의 수렴성을 향상시켰으며, 보강된 쉘 구조의 해석시 보강재를 쉘 요소로 모델링하고 주부재와 보강재의 연결점에서 일반적인 변환관계를 이용하였다. 등매개 쉘 유한요소의 단점인 locking 현상을 극복하기 위하여 가정 변형률장을 적용하여 감차적분 또는 선택적분시 나타날 수 있는 제로 에너지 모드를 제거하였다. 수치해석 예제를 통하여 가정 변형률장에 근거한 쉘유한요소에 대한 효율성 및 적용성을 확인하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.807-829
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• 2004

The Element-Based Lagrangian Formulation of a 9-node resultant-stress shell element is presented for the isotropic and anisotropic composite material. The effect of the coupling term between the bending strain and displacement has been investigated in the warping problem. The strains, stresses and constitutive equations based on the natural co-ordinate have been used throughout the Element-Based Lagrangian Formulation of the present shell element which offers an advantage of easy implementation compared with the traditional Lagrangian Formulation. The element is free of both membrane and shear locking behavior by using the assumed natural strain method such that the element performs very well in thin shell problems. In composite plates and shells, the transverse shear stiffness is defined by an equilibrium approach instead of using the shear correction factor. The arc-length control method is used to trace complex equilibrium paths in thin shell applications. Several numerical analyses are presented and discussed in order to investigate the capabilities of the present shell element. The results showed very good agreement compared with well-established formulations in the literature.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.1719-1730
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• 1993

This paper presents the theoretical natural frequencies of out-of-plane deformable ring based on the variables such as out-of-plane deflection, torsional rotation and shear rotation. Based on the same variables, a finite element eigen analysis is carried out by using the $C^0$-continuous, isoparametric element which has three nodes per element and three degrees-of-freedom at each node. Numerical experiments are peformed to find the integration scheme which produces accurate natural frequencies, natural modes and correct rigid body motion. The uniformly reduced integration and the selective reduced integration give more accurate numerical frequencies than the uniformly full integration, but the uniformly reduced integration produces incorrect rigid body motion while selective reduced integration does correct one. Therefore, the ring element based on the three variables which employes selective reduced integration is recommended to avoid spurious modes, to alleviate the error due to shear locking and to produce correct rigid body motion, simultaneously.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.41-61
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• 1998

A state-of-the-art report on the new finite elements formulated by the addition of nonconforming displacement modes has been presented. The development of a series improved nonconforming finite elements for the analysis of plate and shell structures is described in the first part of this paper. These new plate and shell finite elements are established by the combined use of different improvement schemes such as; the addition of nonconforming modes, the reduced (or selective) integration, and the construction of the substitute shear strain fields. The improvement achieved may be attributable to the fact that the merits of these improvement techniques are merged into the formation of the new elements in a complementary manner. It is shown that the results obtained by the new elements give significantly improved solutions without any serious defects such as; the shear locking, spurious zero energy mode for the linear as well as nonlinear benchmark problems. Recent developments in the transition elements that have a variable number of mid-side nodes and can be effectively used in the adaptive mesh refinement are presented in the second part. Finally, the nonconforming transition flat shell elements with drilling degrees of freedom are also presented.