Moita, José Mateus SimõesSoares, Cristovão M. MotaSoares, Carlos A. Mota2009-02-132009-02-131997ICCM-11 PROCEEDINGS ICCM-11 Proceedings. - Australia, 1997. - VoI. 6, p. 808-818http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/103A non-conforming three-node triangular finite element with 18 degree of freedom, is used in conjugation with the Kirchhoff theory for the non-linear analysis of thin composite plate-shell structure. The formulation of the geometrically non-linear analysis is based on an updated Lagrangian formulation associated with the Newton-Raphson iterative technique, which incorporates an automatic arc-length control procedure.application/pdfengElementos finitos620Non-linear analysisFinite elementsMultilaminate shellsconference object