An insight on NURBS based isogeometric analysis, its current status and involvement in mechanical applications

V Gupta, A Jameel, SK Verma, S Anand… - Archives of Computational …, 2023 - Springer
The current communication is a state-of-the-art review of the recently developed
Isogeometric analysis and its various applications such as structural, thermal, fluid–structure …

Isogeometric Kirchhoff–Love shell formulations for general hyperelastic materials

J Kiendl, MC Hsu, MCH Wu, A Reali - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2015 - Elsevier
We present formulations for compressible and incompressible hyperelastic thin shells which
can use general 3D constitutive models. The necessary plane stress condition is enforced …

Overcoming membrane locking in quadratic NURBS-based discretizations of linear Kirchhoff–Love shells: CAS elements

H Casquero, KD Mathews - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Quadratic NURBS-based discretizations of the Galerkin method suffer from membrane
locking when applied to Kirchhoff–Love shell formulations. Membrane locking causes not …

Phase-field description of brittle fracture in plates and shells

J Kiendl, M Ambati, L De Lorenzis, H Gomez… - Computer Methods in …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present an approach for phase-field modeling of fracture in thin structures like plates and
shells, where the kinematics is defined by midsurface variables. Accordingly, the phase field …

A new rotation-free isogeometric thin shell formulation and a corresponding continuity constraint for patch boundaries

TX Duong, F Roohbakhshan, RA Sauer - Computer Methods in applied …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a general non-linear computational formulation for rotation-free thin
shells based on isogeometric finite elements. It is a displacement-based formulation that …

Galerkin formulations of isogeometric shell analysis: Alleviating locking with Greville quadratures and higher-order elements

Z Zou, TJR Hughes, MA Scott, RA Sauer… - Computer Methods in …, 2021 - Elsevier
We propose new quadrature schemes that asymptotically require only four in-plane points
for Reissner–Mindlin shell elements and nine in-plane points for Kirchhoff–Love shell …

Seamless integration of design and Kirchhoff–Love shell analysis using analysis-suitable unstructured T-splines

H Casquero, X Wei, D Toshniwal, A Li… - Computer Methods in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Analysis-suitable T-splines (ASTS) including both extraordinary points and T-
junctions are used to solve Kirchhoff–Love shell problems. Extraordinary points are required …

[HTML][HTML] Isogeometric analysis for multi-patch structured Kirchhoff–Love shells

A Farahat, HM Verhelst, J Kiendl, M Kapl - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present an isogeometric method for Kirchhoff–Love shell analysis of shell structures with
geometries composed of multiple patches and which possibly possess extraordinary …

Selective and reduced numerical integrations for NURBS-based isogeometric analysis

C Adam, TJR Hughes, S Bouabdallah… - Computer Methods in …, 2015 - Elsevier
We propose a new approach to construct selective and reduced integration rules for
isogeometric analysis based on NURBS elements. The notion of an approximation space …

Numerical implementation for isogeometric analysis of thin-walled structures based on a Bézier extraction framework: nligaStruct

X Du, G Zhao, R Zhang, W Wang, J Yang - Thin-Walled Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
We present an open Octave/Matlab package nligaStruct, for linear and nonlinear
isogeometric analysis of thin-walled structures. nligaStruct is an extension of NLIGA in …