INESC Coimbra
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra
Application of Spring Lattice Models to Shell Structures
Title: Application of Spring Lattice Models to Shell Structures
Coordinator at INESCC: Vitor Dias da Silva
Dates start/end: 01-2016 / 12-2017
Entity: Portuguese-German Integrated Actions, Ref. A 07/16, Fundação das Universidades Portuguesas
Synopsis: A number of arguments may suggest that solid continua could be investigated with spring cell substitutes instead of finite elements. The main arguments would be a simplified discrete representation, microstructural modelling, uniaxial material laws, the resolution of progressing damage and failure. However, the facts damp the high expectations. Only specific continua can be represented by spring cells.
