Weak form quadrature element analysis of spatial geometrically exact shear-rigid beams
A quadrature element formulation for nonlinear analysis of spatial beams is presented. A shear-rigid geometrically exact beam model is adopted. The demand of strain-objectivity is satisfied in the formulation. Computational feasibility is shown.
shear-rigid beam strain-objectivity geometrically exact beam theory weak form quadrature element method total lagrangian formulation