Wrinkled membranes III: numerical simulations

Wong, Wesley; Pellegrino, Sergio

doi:10.2140/jomms.2006.1.63

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Wrinkled membranes Part III: numerical simulations

Y. Wesley Wong and Sergio Pellegrino

Vol. 1 (2006), No. 1, 63–95

DOI: 10.2140/jomms.2006.1.63

Abstract

This is the third and final part of a study of wrinkles in thin membrane structures. High-fidelity, geometrically nonlinear finite element models of membrane structures, based on thin-shell elements, are used to simulate the onset and growth of wrinkles. The simulations are carried out with the ABAQUS finite element package. The accuracy of the results is demonstrated by computing the characteristics of the wrinkles in two specific membrane structures that were investigated experimentally and analytically in the first two papers in this series.

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post-buckling behaviour, mode jumping, thin shell finite elements, membrane structures, wrinkling

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Received: 3 March 2005

Revised: 10 October 2005

Accepted: 2 November 2005

Published: 1 May 2006

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Y. Wesley Wong


Sergio Pellegrino
Department of Engineering University of Cambridge Trumpington Street Cambridge, CB2 1PZ United Kingdom

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2006

Y. Wesley Wong and Sergio Pellegrino

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