Abstract: The wrinkling phenomenon is a commonly-known problem in many fields of engineering applications. Using a general structural analysis framework of the vector-form hybrid particle-element method (VHPEM), this paper presents a newly developed shell-based numerical model for the geometrically nonlinear wrinkling analysis of thin membranes. VHPEM is rooted in vector mechanics and physical perspective. It discretizes the analyzed domain into a group of finite particles linked by canonical elements, and the motions of the free particles are governed by Newton’s second law while the constrained ones follow the prescribed paths. An adaptive convected material frame is adopted for a general kinematical description. Internal forces related to the non-zero bending rigidity of a membrane can be efficiently evaluated by the rotation deformation in a set of deformation coordinates after eliminating rigid body motions simply by a fictitious reverse motion. To overcome the numerical difficulties associated with wrinkles, a pseudo-dynamic scheme using the explicit time integration is introduced into this method. Structural nonlinearity can be easily handled without iterative operations or any other special modification. The wrinkling behavior can be readily obtained by performing a pseudo bifurcation analysis incorporated into the VHPEM. The numerical results reveal that the VHPEM has good reliability and accuracy on solving the membrane wrinkling problem.

Key words: Membrane wrinkling, Vector-form hybrid particle-element method (VHPEM), Shell-based model, Pseudo-dynamic scheme, Explicit time integration, Membrane structures

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