Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Triangular and shell element stiffness matrices

Status
Not open for further replies.

kuttw78

Structural
Joined
Mar 14, 2021
Messages
1
Location
DE
I would like a reference that can give me the local stiffness matrix of a triangular shell element (membrane+bending). I am not interested in the theory behind that and would like to have just the stiffness matrix as a function of nodal coordinates and material data.
Moreover, I would also like the same for geometric non-linearity tangent stiffness matrix.

Are these anywhere so that I can save considerable time looking for them?
 
Here's a stiffness matrix of a triangular shell element:

shell_stiffness_matrix_e2ccan.png


where: E – constitutive matrix, t – thickness, B – strain-displacement matrix, A – area, D - flexural rigidity matrix

You can find more details about this for example in the book written by O.C. Zienkiewicz ("The Finite Element Method Volume 2. Solid Mechanics") or the one written by R.D. Cook ("Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis")
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top