Abstract

We present a new version of the Naghdi model for shells with curvature discontinuities. The unknowns – the displacement and the rotation of the normal to the shell midsurface – are described respectively in Cartesian and local covariant or contravariant basis. Our purpose here is to consider a constraint-free formulation instead of the one introduced by Blouza et al. (Two finite element approximation of Naghdiʼs shell model in Cartesian coordinates, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 44 (2) (2006) 636–654), where the tangency character of the rotation is enforced by penalization or by duality. This new version enables us, in particular, to approximate by conforming finite elements the solution with less degrees of freedom compared to the method of Blouza et al.

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