Elasto-plastic and damage analysis of plates and shells

This book presents a finite element model for the elasto-plastic and damage analysis of thin and thick shells. Linear elastic, inelastic and softening behaviors caused by damage in structural shells, as well as large rotations are investigated. The textbook is addressed to graduate students and researchers in civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering as well material scientists and applied mechanicians. The formulation presented here was developed primarily forlarge scale structural analyses. Special emphasis is therefore placed in computational efficiency. Despite ever increasing capabilities of nowadays computers, small scale constitutive models are hardly ever applicable to analysis of large structures. This book provides a constitutive model which allows for accurate representation of the non-linear shell behavior up to failure, while offering high efficiency and applicability to large scale structural analyses. Recent advances on the theory of plates and shells INDICE: Introduction.- Shell Constitutive Equations.- Finite Element Analysis.- Geometrically Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis.- Elasto-Plastic Behaviour.- Modeling of Damage Effects.- Numerical Methods and Computational Algorithms.- Computer Software.

• ISBN: 978-3-540-79350-2
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés