Zhibo Yang1, Xuefeng Chen2, Bing Li1, Zhengjia He1, Huihui Miao1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.85, No.2, pp. 129-156, 2012, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2012.085.129
Abstract The implementation of the B-spline Wavelet on the Interval (BSWI) for curved shell elements with rectangular planform is presented in this paper. By aid of the general shell theory, cylinder shells, doubly-curved shallow shells and hyperbolic paraboloidal shells BSWI elements are formulated. Instead of traditional polynomial interpolation, scaling functions at certain scale have been adopted to form the shape functions and construct wavelet-based elements. Because of the good character of BSWI scaling functions, the BSWI curved shell elements combine the accuracy of wavelet-based elements approximation and the character of B-spline functions for structural analysis. Different More >