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This chapter studies the derivation of curved shell elements for analysis of shells of arbitrary shape. Curved shell elements are an alternative to the “flat” shell elements studied in Chapter 8 and their formulation is interesting both from the theoretical and practical points of view.
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Oñate, E. (2013). Curved 3D Shell Elements and Shell Stiffners. In: Structural Analysis with the Finite Element Method Linear Statics. Lecture Notes on Numerical Methods in Engineering and Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8743-1_10
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