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ProfessorBassamIzzuddin

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor of Computational Structural Mechanics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5985b.izzuddin Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Ruth Bello +44 (0)20 7594 6040

 
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Location

 

330Skempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Li:2021:10.1007/s00707-020-02884-4,
author = {Li, Z-X and Wei, H and Loc, V-Q and Izzuddin, BA and Zhuo, X and Li, T-Z},
doi = {10.1007/s00707-020-02884-4},
journal = {Acta Mechanica},
pages = {1515--1542},
title = {A co-rotational triangular finite element for large deformation analysis of smooth, folded and multi-shells},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00707-020-02884-4},
volume = {232},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - A six-node co-rotational curved triangular shell finite element with a novel rotation treatment for folded and multi-shell structures is presented. Different from other co-rotational triangular element formulations, rotations are not represented by axial (pseudo) vectors, but by components of polar (proper) vectors, of which additivity and commutativity lead to symmetry of the tangent stiffness matrices in both local and global coordinate systems. In the co-rotational local coordinate system, the two smallest components of the shell director are defined as the nodal rotational variables. Similarly, the two smallest components of each director in the global coordinate system are adopted as the global rotational variables for nodes located either on smooth shells or away from non-smooth shell intersections. At intersections of folded and multi-shells, global rotational variables are defined as three selected components of an orthogonal triad initially oriented along the global coordinate system axes. As such, the vectorial rotational variables enable simple additive update of all nodal variables in an incremental-iterative procedure, resulting in significant enhancement in computational efficiency for large deformation analysis. To alleviate membrane and shear locking phenomena, an assumed strain method is employed in obtaining the element tangent stiffness matrices and the internal force vector. The effectiveness of the presented co-rotational triangular shell element formulation is verified by analyzing several benchmark problems of smooth, folded and multi-shell structures undergoing large displacements and large rotations.
AU  - Li,Z-X
AU  - Wei,H
AU  - Loc,V-Q
AU  - Izzuddin,BA
AU  - Zhuo,X
AU  - Li,T-Z
DO  - 10.1007/s00707-020-02884-4
EP  - 1542
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 0001-5970
SP  - 1515
TI  - A co-rotational triangular finite element for large deformation analysis of smooth, folded and multi-shells
T2  - Acta Mechanica
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00707-020-02884-4
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000620440200002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00707-020-02884-4
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/87538
VL  - 232
ER  -
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