Overcoming membrane locking in quadratic NURBS-based discretizations of linear Kirchhoff–Love shells: CAS elements

H Casquero, KD Mathews - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Quadratic NURBS-based discretizations of the Galerkin method suffer from membrane
locking when applied to Kirchhoff–Love shell formulations. Membrane locking causes not …

Numerical implementation for isogeometric analysis of thin-walled structures based on a Bézier extraction framework: nligaStruct

X Du, G Zhao, R Zhang, W Wang, J Yang - Thin-Walled Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
We present an open Octave/Matlab package nligaStruct, for linear and nonlinear
isogeometric analysis of thin-walled structures. nligaStruct is an extension of NLIGA in …

[HTML][HTML] Critical time-step size analysis and mass scaling by ghost-penalty for immersogeometric explicit dynamics

SKF Stoter, SC Divi, EH van Brummelen… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this article, we study the effect of small-cut elements on the critical time-step size in an
immersogeometric explicit dynamics context. We analyze different formulations for second …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of smooth basis constructions for isogeometric analysis

HM Verhelst, P Weinmüller, A Mantzaflaris… - Computer Methods in …, 2024 - Elsevier
In order to perform isogeometric analysis with increased smoothness on complex domains,
trimming, variational coupling or unstructured spline methods can be used. The latter two …

Trimming with polygonal scaled boundary isogeometric method

Q Zang, C Jansari, SPA Bordas, J Liu - Computers & Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
A novel approach of polygonal scaled boundary isogeometric analysis is proposed for 2D
elasticity problems involving trimmed geometries. The method addresses the challenge of …

[HTML][HTML] Coupling of non-conforming trimmed isogeometric Kirchhoff–Love shells via a projected super-penalty approach

L Coradello, J Kiendl, A Buffa - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Penalty methods have proven to be particularly effective for achieving the required C 1-
continuity in the context of multi-patch isogeometric Kirchhoff–Love shells. Due to their …

Concepts of data collection for the CAD-integrated isogeometric analysis

T Teschemacher, AM Bauer, R Aristio… - Engineering with …, 2022 - Springer
This publication presents required steps for the realization of the pre-and post-processing for
the isogeometric analysis and the isogeometric B-Rep analysis, with a focus on the …

Volumetric embedded entities for the IsoGeometric Analysis of complex structures

M Guerder, A Duval, T Elguedj, D Dam - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a convenient methodology for the modeling and analysis of aircraft compressor
blades. To meet this goal, IsoGeometric Analysis is put to good use, as it allows for an exact …

A novel isogeometric coupling approach for assembled thin-walled structures

Z Zhang, P Hao, Y Wang, L Jin, S Feng - Thin-Walled Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
In the aerospace field, there are numerous assembled thin-walled structures with complex
geometric continuity conditions. This makes isogeometric analysis (IGA) inevitably meet …

An interior penalty coupling strategy for isogeometric non-conformal Kirchhoff–Love shell patches

G Guarino, P Antolin, A Milazzo, A Buffa - Engineering With Computers, 2024 - Springer
This work focuses on the coupling of trimmed shell patches using Isogeometric Analysis,
based on higher continuity splines that seamlessly meet the C 1 requirement of Kirchhoff …