SUMMARYThe chief advantage claimed for nine-noded shell elements is that they can pass constant curvature patch tests with bilinear element geometry while eight-noded shell elements cannot. It is shown that a simple modification of the shape functions of an eight-noded element can make this advantage disappear. Test results confirm this result and show that the performance of a modified eight-noded element is similar to that of recently reported nine-noded elements.
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