A shell model allowing folds
Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, 2003
Starting from the Kirchhoff-Love model, we formulate a new thin shell model in linearized elastic... more Starting from the Kirchhoff-Love model, we formulate a new thin shell model in linearized elasticity which can be applied to folded shells. The presence of a fold is solely characterized by an additonal constraint in the variational space. The strain energy contains a membrane-bending coupling term and a new bending strain tensor χαβ(u) which measures the infinitesimal variations of the principal curvatures of a surface. We establish a uniqueness and existence result for shells whose midsurfaces are of class G 1 , which includes curvature discontinuities. We give explicit relative error estimates, which are of order h 2 ,on the difference between the solution of our model and the solution of the Kirchhoff-Love shell model.
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