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In this paper, equilibrium and stability equations of functionally graded material (FGM) plate under thermal environment are formulated based on isogeometric analysis (IGA) in combination with higher-order shear deformation theory (HSDT).…
Shell structures with a high stiffness-to-weight ratio are desirable in various engineering applications. In such scenarios, topology optimization serves as a popular and effective tool for shell structures design. Among the topology…
Shells are ubiquitous thin structures that can undergo large nonlinear elastic deformations while exhibiting combined modes of bending and stretching, and have profound modern applications. In this paper, we have proposed a new Isogeometric…
We propose a novel approach to the linear viscoelastic problem of shear-deformable geometrically exact beams. The generalized Maxwell model for one-dimensional solids is here efficiently extended to the case of arbitrarily curved beams…
We present a fully explicit dynamic formulation for geometrically exact shear-deformable beams. The starting point of this work is an existing isogeometric collocation (IGA-C) formulation which is explicit in the strict sense of the time…
This paper investigates nonlinear bending and buckling behaviours of composite plates characterized by a thickness variation. Layer interfaces are described as functions of inplane coordinates. Top and bottom surfaces of the plate are…
Isogeometric analysis (IGA) has emerged as a promising approach in the field of structural optimization, benefiting from the seamless integration between the computer-aided design (CAD) geometry and the analysis model by employing…
A Skeleton-stabilized IsoGeometric Analysis (SIGA) technique is proposed for incompressible viscous flow problems with moderate Reynolds number. The proposed method allows utilizing identical finite dimensional spaces (with arbitrary…
Most variational forms of isogeometric analysis use highly-continuous basis functions for both trial and test spaces. For a partial differential equation with a smooth solution, isogeometric analysis with highly-continuous basis functions…
A novel approach to the simulation with the boundary element method using trimmed NURBS patches is presented. The advantage of this approach is its efficiency and easy implementation. The analysis with trimmed NURBS is achieved by double…
We introduce a varying-order (VO) NURBS discretization method to enhance the performance of the IGA technique for three-dimensional large deformation frictional contact problems. Based on the promising results obtained with the previous…
This work presents an efficient quadrature rule for shell analysis fully integrated in CAD by means of Isogeometric Analysis (IGA). General CAD-models may consist of trimmed parts such as holes, intersections, cut-offs etc. Therefore, IGA…
We present a novel formulation for the dynamics of geometrically exact Timoshenko beams and beam structures made of viscoelastic material featuring complex, arbitrarily curved initial geometries. An $\textrm{SO}(3)$-consistent and…
In this paper, a novel varying order NURBS discretization method is proposed to enhance the performance of isogeometric analysis within the framework of computational contact mechanics. The method makes use of higher-order NURBS for contact…
This paper proposes a low order geometrically exact flexible beam formulation based on the utilisation of generic beam shape functions to approximate distributed kinematic properties of the deformed structure. The proposed nonlinear beam…
In this paper, we present a NURBS-enhanced finite element method that integrates the NURBS-based boundary representation of a geometric domain into a standard finite element framework for hexahedral meshes. We decompose an open, bounded,…
The paper presents a two-dimensional geometrically nonlinear formulation of a beam element that can accommodate arbitrarily large rotations of cross sections. The formulation is based on the integrated form of equilibrium equations, which…
The paper presents the Isogeometric Boundary Element Method (IGABEM) algorithm for solving the plane strain problem of an isotropic linearly elastic matrix containing an open material surface of arbitrary shape. Theoretical developments are…
We consider a cut isogeometric method, where the boundary of the domain is allowed to cut through the background mesh in an arbitrary fashion for a second order elliptic model problem. In order to stabilize the method on the cut boundary we…
Multi-material problems often exhibit complex geometries along with physical responses presenting large spatial gradients or discontinuities. In these cases, providing high-quality body-fitted finite element analysis meshes and obtaining…