In this work, we have investigated numerically the disappearance of wrinkles from a tended membrane by the Asymptotic Numerical Method (ANM) using the finite-element DKT18. The ANM is a path-following technique that has been used to solve bifurcation problems. We show numerically the influence of the terms corresponding to the membrane displacement gradient in the Föppl-von Kármán (FvK) theory on the bifurcation curves in the case of a stretched elastic membrane. We will also study numerically, by using the ANM algorithm, the influence of the thickness and of the aspect ratio on the restabilization of a rectangular elastic membrane during stretching. The results obtained by our model are compared with those obtained using the industrial code ABAQUS.
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