Improved assumed‐stress hybrid shell element with drilling degrees of freedom for linear stress, buckling and free vibration analyses

An improved 4-node quadrilateral assumed-stress hybrid shell element with drilling degrees of freedom is presented. The formulation is based on Hellinger–Reissner variational principle and the shape functions are formulated directly for the 4-node element. The element has 12 membrane degrees of freedom and 12 bending degrees of freedom. It has 9 independent stress parameters to describe the membrane stress resultant field and 13 independent stress parameters to describe the moment and transverse shear stress resultant field. The formulation encompasses linear stress, linear buckling and linear free vibration problems. The element is validated with standard test cases and is shown to be robust. Numerical results are presented for linear stress, buckling, and free vibration analyses.

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