A novel one-dimensional two-node shear-flexible layered composite beam element

摘要

A new simple one-dimensional two-node layered beam element with only 2 degrees of freedom pe node is developed for finite element analyses of isotropic and composite beams in this papei Timoshenko's composite beam functions are modified and employed to represent the displacemen functions of the element, thus providing a unified formulation for slender-to-moderately deep bean analyses, and the notorious shear-locking problem is avoided without employment of remedy scheme: The proposed beam element is demonstrated to be convergent, accurate and computationally efficien for analysis of isotropic and composite beams.