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A cost-effective isogeometric approach for composite plates based on a stress recovery procedure (1704.06679v1)
Published 21 Apr 2017 in cs.CE and math.NA
Abstract: This paper introduces a cost-effective strategy to simulate the behavior of laminated plates by means of isogeometric 3D solid elements. Exploiting the high continuity of spline functions and their properties, a proper out-of-plane stress state is recovered from a coarse displacement solution using a post-processing step based on the enforcement of equilibrium in strong form. Appealing results are obtained and the method is shown to be particularly Peffective on slender composite stacks with a large number of layers.