An immersed boundary fluid–structure interaction method for thin, highly compliant shell structures

J Boustani, MF Barad, CC Kiris, C Brehm - Journal of Computational …, 2021 - Elsevier
A parallel computational method for simulating fluid–structure interaction problems involving
large, geometrically nonlinear deformations of thin shell structures is presented and …

A new MITC4+ shell element

Y Ko, PS Lee, KJ Bathe - Computers & Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
We presented in Ko et al.(2016) an MITC4+ shell element that shows a much improved
convergence behavior when compared to the widely used MITC4 (Dvorkin and Bathe, 1984) …

Discrete shear projection method for mechanical buckling analysis of FGM sandwich plates

I Katili, JL Batoz, S Bouabdallah, IJ Maknun… - Composite …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the mechanical buckling analysis of functionally graded material
(FGM) sandwich plates using quadrilateral element Q4γ s based on the discrete shear …

Static and dynamic analyses of multi-directional functionally graded porous nanoplates with variable nonlocal parameter using MITC3+ element

TTT Thi, VK Tran, QH Pham - Journal of Vibration Engineering & …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose In this paper, a new three-node triangular plate element is proposed to analyze
static bending, free vibration and forced vibration analysis of multi-directional functionally …

The strain-smoothed MITC3+ shell finite element

C Lee, PS Lee - Computers & Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose the strain-smoothed MITC3+ shell finite element. The membrane
strain field of the continuum mechanics based 3-node triangular shell element (MITC3+) is …

The MITC3+ shell element enriched in membrane displacements by interpolation covers

H Jun, K Yoon, PS Lee, KJ Bathe - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we significantly improve the membrane behavior of the previously published 3-
node triangular MITC3+ shell element through the use of interpolation covers. We give the …

A new strain smoothing method for triangular and tetrahedral finite elements

C Lee, PS Lee - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a simple and effective strain smoothing method (the strain-smoothed
element method) for 3-node triangular and 4-node tetrahedral solid finite elements. While …

A comparative formulation of T3γs, DST, DKMT and MITC3+ triangular plate elements with new numerical results based on s-norm tests

I Katili, IJ Maknun, JL Batoz, AM Katili - European Journal of Mechanics-A …, 2019 - Elsevier
The paper deals with plate bending triangular elements with shear effect included, having
only three degrees of freedom at each corner node. In that category, we select four elements …

An optimum triangular plate element based on DSPM with incomplete quadratic functions and an assumed orthogonality condition

AM Katili, KU Bletzinger, I Katili - Computers & Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the formulation and evaluation of a triangular bending plate element,
taking into account the shear effect, with 3 DOFs at each corner node. The new element …

On the formulation and evaluation of old and new efficient low order triangular plate bending elements with shear effects

JL Batoz, E Antaluca, I Katili - Computational Mechanics, 2021 - Springer
This paper deals with the presentation of a general, variational principle as theoretical
support for the development of simple and efficient triangular elements having only one …