Following a series of recent innovations,isogeometric analysis for trimmed thin shell surfaces is currently developing into an accurate,efficient and mature
Delamination is a common failure mode in composite laminates,however,it was observed that delamination may migrate between plies in three dimensional(3D)com
Spatially curved beam structures have been widely used in engineering designs,which are important in the micro-mechanic systems(MEMS),aerospace and automoti
The unsymmetric FEM is a very promising technique to produce high-performance finite elements with good numerical accuracies and high tolerances to severe m
The analysis of geometrically nonlinear responses of structures is important for determining their load carrying capability,especially in the case of buckli
The finite element analysis for large deformation problems has long been a difficulty in computational mechanics due to the non-linearity and numerical comp
The concept of isogeometric analysis(IGA)was put forward in the seminal paper published.It successfully integrates Computer Aided Design(CAD)tools with nume
In the present paper,structural topology optimization of thermo-elastic problems is investigated.To avoid the limitations of the implicit geometric features