Dear all,
I'm searching for the kinematics formulation of finite-strain shell elements in the commercial code Abaqus (Abaqus/Explicit). I have found many articles in literature, but the few words spent in the Abaqus's Theory Guide are barely incomprehensible.
Does anyone know where I can find detailed informations about it?
Kind regards
Hi,
I think useful information can be found in the Abaqus Documentation. See chapter 3.6 in the following link.
http://ivt-abaqusdoc.ivt.ntnu.no:2080/v6.13/books/stm/default.htm
Hi,
I have already checked the documentation, and if you take a look at subsection relative to finite-strain shell elements in section 3.6 you can understand my difficulty in understanding what actually Abaqus does when dealing with finite-strain shells.
However thank you for trying.
Hi Claudio,
The real issue is the lack of references in Theory Guide when talking about finite-strain shells. Do you know how the gradient of deformation is decomposed in ANSYS? Probably it would be the same implemented in Abaqus. I need to look at ANSYS's guide and see if I can "translate" what it's written in Abaqus's Guide with the help of ANSYS.
Otherwise, I will write to Abaqus support.
Thank you
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