TL;DR: In this article, two simple and efficient DKT triangular shell elements for the springback simulation after the sheet forming process are presented, which are more general and accurate than existing rotation free elements, particularly in the case of deep shells.
TL;DR: A new numerical method, named as the Free Element Collocation Method (FECM), is proposed for solving general engineering problems governed by the second order partial differential equations (PDEs), which can result in more stable results than the traditional collocation method.
TL;DR: A procedure for compacting the store such that all of the free space forms a single element large enough to satisfy the request of a dynamic storage allocation scheme.
Abstract: When a dynamic storage allocation scheme requires variable-length elements, an element of a given length may be requested when no free element large enough is available. This can happen even though the total free space is more than adequate to fulfil the request. In such a situation the program will fail unless some method is at hand for forming the available space into a single element large enough to satisfy the request. We present a procedure for compacting the store such that all of the free space forms a single element.
TL;DR: In this paper, an extension of a nine-node degenerated shell element developed earlier for stress analysis to free vibration analysis of thick laminated composites is presented, which is preferable to conventional solid elements for modeling and analysis of laminated composite shell structures since the shell element works for both thick and thin shells.