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In plane components of strain in shell elements

Thread starter ehsansharei
Start date Jan 20, 2014

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Jan 20, 2014

ehsansharei

Civil/Environmental

Hello everybody,
I need for UMAT programming the in-plane strain vectors within my shell element, i.e the strain should be rotated from global coordinate into the surface coordinate of the shell element. Can anybody help me how can I do this?
Regards,
Ehsan