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This paper represents a progress report of some of the research that we are conducting in the finite element analysis of thin shell structures. We consider our isoparametric displacement-rotation thin shell element and our discrete-Kirchhoff-theory (DKT) plate/shell element, which we are continuously refining for accurate and effective geometric and materially nonlinear analysis. In the paper we briefly discuss the locking phenomenon of the isoparametric element, the use of this element as a transition element between shell surfaces and in shell-solid transitions, and we give some results using the DKT element.
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Bathe, KJ., Ho, L.W. (1981). Some Results in the Analysis of Thin Shell Structures. In: Wunderlich, W., Stein, E., Bathe, KJ. (eds) Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis in Structural Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81589-8_8
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