Abstract
Shell elements are the most sophisticated elements because they must represent membrane and bending stresses equally well, and they must also model the coupling between these two stress states due to the curvature of the element; see Fig. 6.1. The topic is so complex that not all aspects of FE shell analysis can be discussed in this chapter. Instead we concentrate on the typical features.
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Hartmann, F., Katz, C. (2004). Shells. In: Structural Analysis with Finite Elements. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05423-9_6
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