Plate and Shell Models

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Plate and Shell Models is written by Robert Nzengwa and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9819727804 (ISBN 10) and 9789819727803 (ISBN 13).

This book presents, in a variational form, very many two dimensional models which have been developed to overcome some weaknesses of the Kirchhoff-Love and Reissner-Mindlin’s models. More precisely the N-T and N models are particularly treated because they clearly show the impact of the change in the third fundamental form whose contribution to the strain energy becomes important when the characteristic ratio of the shell is roughly greater than 0.3. Transverse stresses through-the-thickness are calculated. Gradient Recovery and Strain deformation approach with Curve triangular and Shifted Lagrange elements are implemented. These new FEM appear to be memory less greedy.