Abstract:Summary
The authors proposed a quadrilateral shell element enriched with degrees of freedom to represent thickness‐stretch. The quadrilateral shell element can be utilized to consider large deformations for nearly incompressible materials, and its performance is demonstrated in small and large deformation analyses of hyperelastic materials in this study. Formulation of the proposed shell element is based on extension of the MITC4 shell element. A displacement variation in the thickness direction is introduced … Show more
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