Identification and elimination of parasitic shear in a laminated composite beam finite element

نویسندگان

  • João E. Abdalla Fdegree
  • Florentino A. Fagundes
  • Roberto D. Machado
چکیده

A displacement-based finite element for the analysis of laminated composite beams is formulated using strain gradient notation. The definition of the beam’s longitudinal displacement possesses only the independent term (axial displacement) and a term which is linear in the thickness coordinate z. Thus, the finite element is first-order shear deformable. As strain gradient notation is physically interpretable, the contents of the coefficients of the polynomial expansions are identified a priori. Thus, the modeling capabilities as well as modeling deficiencies of the element are identified during the formulation procedure. A single parasitic shear term (spurious) is found to be present in the transverse shear strain expression of the element, which is responsible for locking. This parasitic shear term is also found to be the cause of a qualitative error existing in the representation of transverse shear strain along the length of a typical beam model. As the spurious term has been clearly identified, it can easily be removed to correct the element. The effectiveness of the procedure is shown through numerical analyses performed using the element containing the spurious term and then corrected for it. The beam model is validated by comparing numerical solutions with analytical solutions provided by the minimization of the total potential energy for a given laminated composite beam. 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Advances in Engineering Software

دوره 37  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006