Analysis of beams and shell using a rotation - free finite element - finite volume formulation

Abstract

In this research work, the studies of the previous authors have been applied and expanded to other types of structural problems: Euler-Bernoulli beams, axisymmetric shells and arbitrary shape shells. The main novelty of the particular interest in this work is recasting the mentioned developments in the framework of the mixed Hu-Washizu type variational formulation. Different FE/EV approximations have been accommodated owing to such a variational formulation, in particular Cell Centered and Cell Vertex FV schemes combined with simple linear finite element interpolation have been studied.