TY - GEN A1 - Kikis, Georgia A1 - Dornisch, Wolfgang A1 - Klinkel, Sven T1 - A method for the elimination of shear locking effects in an isogeometric Reissner-Mindlin shell formulation T2 - Proceedings of the 7th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics for Young Scientists from Academia and Industry, October 11-13, 2017 in Stuttgart, Germany N2 - Shell elements for slender structures based on a Reissner-Mindlin approach struggle in pure bending problems. The stiffness of such structures is overestimated due to the transversal shear locking effect. Here, an isogeometric Reissner-Mindlin shell element is presented, which uses adjusted control meshes for the displacements and rotations in order to create a conforming interpolation of the pure bending compatibility requirement. The method is tested for standard numerical examples. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18419/opus-9334 SP - 500 EP - 503 PB - Institute for Structural Mechanics University of Stuttgart CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - GEN A1 - Kikis, Georgia A1 - Dornisch, Wolfgang A1 - Klinkel, Sven T1 - Isogeometric Reissner-Mindlin shell analysis - adjusted approximation spaces for the reduction of shear locking effects T2 - VI International Conference on Isogeometric Analysis N2 - In this contribution, an isogeometric Reissner-Mindlin shell element is presented, which uses adjusted approximation spaces for the displacements and the rotations in order to avoid transversal shear locking effects. These locking effects arise especially in pure bending problems, with decreasing thickness of the shell. Their origin lies in the not conforming interpolations of the displacements and rotations in the formulation of the compatibility requirements. One possibility to overcome this difficulty would be to increase the polynomial degree of the used NURBS shape functions, as it is proposed in [1]. However, the locking effects are not completely eliminated and the computational time for the formation of the stiffness matrix increases significantly with rising polynomial degrees. For lower polynomial degrees, there exist only a few effective concepts for the prevention of locking. Beir˜ao da Veiga and his group proposed one of these methods for the elimination of transversal shear locking effects for plate problems [2]. They suggested the implementation of different control meshes, with adjusted polynomial degrees for the interpolation of the displacements and the rotations. In this way transversal shear locking effects due to the coupling of shear strains and curvature are avoided. The isogeometric concept still holds because the reference geometry for the displacements and the rotations is the same and only the refinement is different. This method is now extended to an isogeometric Reissner-Mindlin shell formulation. The used shell element is derived from continuum theory. Nodal basis systems are computed with a globalL2 fit and thus the interpolated director vectors of the reference configuration coincide best possible with the normal vectors. The interpolation of the current director vector is performed using a full SO(3) update, so the nodal rotations are interpolated. This deviates from standard rotation interpolation procedures, where the current director vector is interpolated. The more accurate interpolation used in this contribution leads to more accurate results, see [3]. The accuracy and efficiency of the shell element are examined for some standard benchmark examples. Y1 - 2017 UR - http://congress.cimne.com/iga2017/admin/files/fileabstract/a74.pdf PB - CIMNE CY - Barcelona ER - TY - GEN A1 - Kikis, Georgia A1 - Dornisch, Wolfgang A1 - Klinkel, Sven T1 - Adjusted approximation spaces for the treatment of transverse shear locking in isogeometric Reissner–Mindlin shell analysis T2 - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering N2 - Transverse shear locking is an issue that occurs in Reissner–Mindlin plate and shell elements. It leads to an artificial stiffening of the system and to oscillations in the stress resultants for thin structures. The thinner the structure is, the more pronounced are the effects. Since transverse shear locking is caused by a mismatch in the approximation spaces of the displacements and the rotations, a field-consistent approach is proposed for an isogeometric degenerated Reissner–Mindlin shell formulation. The efficiency and accuracy of the method is investigated for benchmark plate and shell problems. A comparison to element formulations with locking alleviation methods from the literature is provided. KW - Isogeometric analysis KW - Reissner–Mindlin shells KW - Transverse shear locking KW - Adjusted approximation spaces Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2019.05.037 SN - 0045-7825 VL - 354 SP - 850 EP - 870 ER -