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A statically determinate truss model for thin shells: Two‐surface analysis (bending theory)
Author(s) -
Pavlović M. N.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.421
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1097-0207
pISSN - 0029-5981
DOI - 10.1002/nme.1620201008
Subject(s) - truss , statically indeterminate , bending , structural engineering , surface (topology) , simple (philosophy) , shell (structure) , computation , analogy , shell theory , plane (geometry) , geometry , mathematics , engineering , finite element method , algorithm , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology
This paper presents a simple scheme for analysing shells subject to the Kirchhoff–Love hypothesis. The method combines a previously developed, statically determinate truss model with the static‐geometric analogy of elastic thin shell theory. In this way, both in‐plane and flexural mid‐surface actions are obtained by simply repeating the elementary computations performed on an essentially ‘membrane’ truss.