《8 - FEM for plates and shells》.pdfVIP

8 FEM FOR PLATES A N D SHELLS 8. I I N T R O D U C T I O N In this chapter, finite element equations for plates and shells are developed. The procedure is to first develop FE matrices for plate elements, and the FE matrices for shell elements are then obtained by superimposing the matrices for plate elements and those for 2D solid plane stress elements developed in Chapter 7. Unlike the 2D solid elements in the previous chapter, plate and shell elements are computationally m