TriangleElement

Overview

A triangle element is referred to a 2D element, which only have dimension in two direction. It’s features in an quick overview:

1. It can act as thin shell, thick shell, plate bending or membrane - see Behaviours section.

DoFs of TriangleElement acting as a Shell

DoFs of TriangleElement acting as a Membrane

2. It can have a cross section - see Cross Section section.
3. It can modeled as PlaneStress or PlainStrain - see Membrane Formulation section.
4. It can have a material - see Material section.
5. Several types of loads are possible to be apply on them - see Applicable Loads section.
6. It Does have a local coordination system, apart from global coordination system - see Coordination Systems section.
7. It is possible to find internal force of it - see Internal Force section.