Bending of Laminated Anisotropic Shells by a Shear Deformable Finite Element

摘要

A shear deformable finite element is developed based on generalized first approximation shell theories. Numerical results are presented for bending of layered, anisotropic, composite shells. Various shell theories (e.g., Sander's, Love's, Donnell's, etc.) are included as special cases of the present element, and can be obtained by specifying the values of tracers. The finite element solutions are compared with the exact solutions for certain shell problems. The agreement is found to be very good.