Bending Structures

Thin walled structures, which are loaded perpendicular to their main spatial dimensions, carry their loading by bending. Modeling of bending structures usually requires kinematic assumptions, which yield either the Euler–Bernoulli beam theory at investigating 1–dimensional structures or the Kirchhoff theory of plates for 2–dimensional structures. Investigating the bending behavior of thin bending structures, shear deformations may be neglected, what requires special finite elements, dealing with C1–conformity at the element intersections.