Element Library
NONLINEAR 3-D SHELL ELEMENT
   
The nonlinear 3-D shell element supports three translational and two or three rotational degrees of freedom per node.
- Topology
- 3 nodes
- 4 nodes
- 6 nodes
- 8 nodes
- Loading
- Forces
- Moments
- Pressures
- Hydrostatic pressures
- Tractions
- Gravitational forces
- Acceleration forces
- Centrifugal forces
- Prescribed displacements
- Prescribed rotations
- Initial velocities
- Initial rotations
- Formulations
- Optional midside nodes (for models that experience bending)
- Material nonlinear only
- Total Lagrangian
- Updated Lagrangian
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