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Rectangular Membrane Element with Rotational Degree of Freedom

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Using finite strips of unit length and width, a rectangular membrane element with rotational degree of freedom is presented. This element can be used to solve planar stress/strain questions and combined with rectangular plate bending element to form plate-type shell element with six degrees of freedom at each node. With its linear interpolating function in the axial direction and cubic interpolating function in transverse direction, it can be coupled and superposed by beam element. Numeric analyses and comparison are carried out to verify the properties of this element, which show that this element has excellent precision and convergence.

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  • finite strip
  • membrane element
  • rotational degree of freedom

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  1. School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China

    Guiyun Xia & Maohong Yu

  2. School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, 410076, China

    Guiyun Xia, Chuanxi Li & Jianren Zhang

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  1. Key Laboratory of Geotechnical and Underground Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, P.R. China

    Yong Yuan

  2. Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Junzhi Cui

  3. Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz, Vienna, 13/202, 1040, Austria

    Herbert A. Mang

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Xia, G., Yu, M., Li, C., Zhang, J. (2009). Rectangular Membrane Element with Rotational Degree of Freedom. In: Yuan, Y., Cui, J., Mang, H.A. (eds) Computational Structural Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2822-8_118

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