An unsymmetric 8-node hexahedral solid-shell element with high distortion tolerance: Geometric nonlinear formulations |
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Authors: | Zhi Li Junbin Huang Song Cen Chen-Feng Li |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;2. Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering, College of Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, UK |
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Abstract: | A recent distortion-tolerant unsymmetric 8-node hexahedral solid-shell element US-ATFHS8, which takes the analytical solutions of linear elasticity as the trial functions, is successfully extended to geometric nonlinear analysis. This extension is based on the corotational (CR) approach due to its simplicity and high efficiency, especially for geometric nonlinear analysis where the strain is still small. Based on the assumption that the analytical trial functions can properly work in each increment during the nonlinear analysis, the incremental corotational formulations of the nonlinear solid-shell element US-ATFHS8 are derived within the updated Lagrangian (UL) framework, in which an appropriate updated strategy for linear analytical trial functions is proposed. Numerical examples show that the present nonlinear element US-ATFHS8 possesses excellent performance for various rigorous tests no matter whether regular or distorted mesh is used. Especially, it even performs well in some situations that other conventional elements cannot work. |
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Keywords: | analytical trial function corotational approach finite element methods geometric nonlinear analysis mesh distortion unsymmetric solid-shell elements |
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