Research Article
An 8-Node Shell Element for Nonlinear Analysis of Shells Using the Refined Combination of Membrane and Shear Interpolation Functions
Table 1
List of shell elements used for comparison.
| | Name | Description (Patterns referred to Figure 2) |
| | Present () | Sampling points for membrane (Pattern ), in-plane shear (Pattern ), and transverse shear (Pattern ) | | Present () | Sampling points for membrane (Pattern ), in-plane shear (Pattern ), and transverse shear (Pattern ) | | Present () | Sampling points for membrane (Pattern ), in-plane shear (Pattern ), and transverse shear (Pattern ) | | Present () | Sampling points for membrane (Pattern ), in-plane shear (Pattern ), and transverse shear (Pattern ) | | Present () | Sampling points for membrane (Pattern ), in-plane shear (Pattern ), and transverse shear (Pattern ) | | Present () | Sampling points for membrane (Pattern ), in-plane shear (Pattern ), and transverse shear (Pattern ) | | QUAD8 | 8-node shell element (MacNeal and Harder [7]) | | QUAD8* | 8-node shell element (STRAND 7 [15]) | | QUAD8** | 8-node ANS shell element (Lakshminarayana and Kailash [2]) | | XSHELL41 | 4-node quasiconforming shell element (Kim et al. [16]) | | XSHELL-8-ANS | 8-node assumed natural strain shell element (XFINAS [17]) | | MITC8 | 8-node shell element using a mixed interpolation of tensorial components (Bathe and Dvorkin [3]) |
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