Nonlinear mechanical analysis of aerospace shell structures through the discontinuous Galerkin method

Nonlinear mechanical analysis of aerospace shell structures through the discontinuous Galerkin method

Giuliano Guarino, Alberto Milazzo

Abstract. The geometrically non-linear mechanical response of multilayer composite shells is addressed via an innovative discontinuous Galerkin formulation. In the framework of the Carrera Unified formulation, equivalent single layer kinematics with different through-the-thickness accuracy is adopted. The variational statement governing the shell nonlinear behavior is derived. The corresponding governing equations are solved via a discontinuous Galerkin approach, which employs the pure penalty method to weakly enforce the connection between the mesh elements. Numerical tests are presented to show the capabilities of the proposed approach.

Keywords
Multilayered Shells, Nonlinear Structural Behavior, Discontinuous Galerkin Method, High-Order Modelling

Published online 11/1/2023, 4 pages
Copyright © 2023 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: Giuliano Guarino, Alberto Milazzo, Nonlinear mechanical analysis of aerospace shell structures through the discontinuous Galerkin method, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 37, pp 287-290, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902813-62

The article was published as article 62 of the book Aeronautics and Astronautics

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