Hybrid gradient smoothing technique with discrete shear gap method for shell structures

Abstract In order to enhance the performance of the discrete shear gap technique (DSG) for shell structures, the coupling of hybrid gradient smoothing technique (H-GST) with DSG using triangular elements (HS-DSG3) is presented to solve the governing partial differential equations of shell structures. In the formulation HS-DSG3, we firstly employ the node-based gradient smoothing technique (N-GST) to obtain the node-based smoothed strain field, then a scale factor α ∈ [ 0 , 1 ] is used to reconstruct a new strain field which includes both the strain components from standard DGS3 and the strain components from node-based smoothed DSG3 (NS-DSG3). The HS-DSG3 takes advantage of the “overly-soft” NS-DSG3 model and the “overly-stiff” DSG3 model, and has a relatively appropriate stiffness of the continuous system. Therefore, the degree of the solution accuracy can be improved significantly. Several typical benchmark numerical examples have been investigated and it is demonstrated that the present HS-DSG3 can provide better numerical solutions than the original DSG3 for shell structures.

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