Abstract
Improvements to isogeometric blended shells are introduced which blend traditional Reissner-Mindlin shells, and Kirchhoff-Love shells, with an exact interpolation of the shell director increment. A gradient extraction operator is introduced which allows derivatives of basis functions to be exactly expressed as a linear combination of the basis functions themselves. Several benchmarks are investigated and the new blended shell is compared with different shell elements in ABAQUS and NASTRAN. In addition, the effect of different quadrature schemes is included in the comparisons. The new isogeometric blended shell performs comparably in some benchmarks, and even outperforms commercial shell finite elements in some benchmarks. Future improvements to the formulation are discussed.
Degree
MS
College and Department
Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology; Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rights
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Willoughby, David Scott, "An Investigation into Isogeometric Blended Shells" (2017). Theses and Dissertations. 6565.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6565
Date Submitted
2017-10-01
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd9539
Keywords
IGA, Kirchhoff-Love shells, Reissner-Mindlin shells, blended shells
Language
english