Linear and Nonlinear Analysis

The finite element analysis of general shell structures is faced with the
problems of shear and membrane locking. These problems are well known
and much research has been focused on the development of powerful
shell elements to eliminate these problems. This book employs three shell
elements these are four nodes degenerated shell element, four nodes flat
shell element and nine nodes degenerated shell element. Each one of
these elements has six degrees of freedom per node. Additional elements
have been developed to avoid problems; these are: four nodes element,
employing the Mixed Interpolation of Tensorial Components approach,
Non Conforming Element and nine nodes element with Selective Reduced
Integration and Weighted Modified Integration. A new solution is
proposed to correct the convergence curve to be asymptotic to the exact
solution curve by using extrapolation. A geometric nonlinear formulation
based on the total Lagrangian formulation using both engineering strains
and Greens strains was adopted. The formulations were implemented into
a nonlinear finite element program and some subroutines are included.
Good results are obtained when applying in different numerical examples

Fathelrahman Mohamed Adam

AbdelRahman Elzubair Mohamed

Finite Element Analysis of

Shell Structures

Fathelrahman Mohamed Adam

978-3-659-38158-4

Mohamed Adam, Elzubair Mohamed

Fathelrahman M. Adam Assistance professor,

Department of Civil Engineering, Jazan University.
Studied civil engineering at Sudan University of
Science and Technology and received his post
graduate studies at the same university. For many
years he taught courses on structural analysis and
R.C. Design and work as structural engineering
consultant.