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    Thin shell formulations neglect transverse shear deformation while thick shell formulations account for it. Thick shell formulations are more accurate, especially for shells where the thickness is greater than 1/10 of the bending span or where shear stresses are concentrated. The contribution of shear deformation becomes significant when the ratio of bending span to thickness is around 20:1 to 10:1, though thick shell formulations can be used down to a ratio of 5:1 or 4:1. Thick shell elements better capture stress distributions where shear deformation is expected to be important.

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    Thin shell formulations neglect transverse shear deformation while thick shell formulations account for it. Thick shell formulations are more accurate, especially for shells where the thickness is greater than 1/10 of the bending span or where shear stresses are concentrated. The contribution of shear deformation becomes significant when the ratio of bending span to thickness is around 20:1 to 10:1, though thick shell formulations can be used down to a ratio of 5:1 or 4:1. Thick shell elements better capture stress distributions where shear deformation is expected to be important.

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    Thin shell formulations neglect transverse shear deformation while thick shell formulations account for it. Thick shell formulations are more accurate, especially for shells where the thickness is greater than 1/10 of the bending span or where shear stresses are concentrated. The contribution of shear deformation becomes significant when the ratio of bending span to thickness is around 20:1 to 10:1, though thick shell formulations can be used down to a ratio of 5:1 or 4:1. Thick shell elements better capture stress distributions where shear deformation is expected to be important.

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    Thin shell formulations neglect transverse shear deformation while thick shell formulations account for it. Thick shell formulations are more accurate, especially for shells where the thickness is greater than 1/10 of the bending span or where shear stresses are concentrated. The contribution of shear deformation becomes significant when the ratio of bending span to thickness is around 20:1 to 10:1, though thick shell formulations can be used down to a ratio of 5:1 or 4:1. Thick shell elements better capture stress distributions where shear deformation is expected to be important.

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    Thick shells
    What is the difference between thin and thick shell formulations?
    Answer: The inclusion of transverse shear deformation in plate-bending behavior is the main difference between thin and thick shell formulation.
    Thin-plate formulation follows a Kirchhoff application, which neglects transverse shear deformation, whereas thick-plate formulation follows
    Mindlin/Reissner, which does account for shear behavior. Thick-plate formulation has no effect upon membrane (in-plane) behavior, only
    plate-bending (out-of-plane) behavior.
    Shear deformation tends to be important when shell thickness is greater than approximately 1/5 to 1/10 of the span of plate-bending curvature.
    Shearing may also become significant in locations of bending-stress concentrations, which occur near sudden changes in thickness or support
    conditions, and near openings or re-entrant corners. Thick-plate formulation is best for such applications.
    Thick-plate formulation is also recommended in general because it tends to be more accurate, though slightly stiffer, even for thin-plate bending
    problems in which shear deformation is truly negligible. However, the accuracy of thick-plate formulation is sensitive to mesh distortion and large
    aspect ratios, and therefore should not be used in such cases when shear deformation is known to be small.
    In general, the contribution of shear deformation becomes significant when ratio between the span of plate-bending curvature and thickness is
    approximately 20:1 or 10:1. The formulation itself is adequate for ratio down to 5:1 or 4:1. In that this ratio is dependent upon the projected span
    of curvature, shell thickness may be greater than the actual plan dimensions of a shell object.

    Stiffness for pure-bending deformation


    The statement that thick shells tend to be stiffer than thin shells applies only to the bending components of shells, and to models in which meshing
    is too coarse.
    When meshing adequately captures bending deformation, thick-shell elements are more flexible because of the additional shear deformation that
    is not captured through thin-shell formulation. Given pure-bending deformation, however, the thin-shell element is slightly more accurate,
    therefore the thick-shell element may be stiffer for coarser meshes. This effect diminishes as the mesh is refined.
    Stresses may be of greater concern than deflections. When shear deformation is expected to be important, we recommend the thick-shell element
    because it will better capture the stress distribution. This is the case not only for thicker shells, but also for regions near openings and other
    geometric discontinuities in which transverse shear deformation develops.

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