Department of Structures
National University of Córdoba, Argentina
Selected Publications:
F. G. Flores…,”Instability of shells of revolution using ALREF: Studies for wind-loaded shells”, in Buckling of shell structures, on land, in the sea, and in the air, edited by J. F. Jullien, Elsevier Applied Science Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1991
Fernando G. Flores and Luis A. Godoy, “Post-buckling of elastic cone-cylinder and sphere-cylinder complex shells”, International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, Vol. 45, No. 2, 1991, pp. 237-258
Flores, F. G. and Godoy, L. A., “Elastic postbuckling analysis via finite element and perturbation techniques. Part 1: Formulation”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 9, 1992, pp.1775–1794
Flores, F. G. and Godoy, L. A., “Elastic postbuckling analysis via finite element and perturbation techniques part II: Application to shells of revolution”. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1993, pp. 331–354
Flores F. G. and Godoy L. A. (1998), “Buckling of short tanks due to hurricanes”. Engineering Structures. Vol. 20, No. 8.
F. G. Flores and L. A. Godoy, “Forced vibrations of silos leading to buckling”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 224 (3), pp. 431-454 (1999)
Flores, F. G. and Oñate, E. (2001). A basic thin shell triangle with only translational dofs for large strain plasticity. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 51:57–83
L.A. Godoy and F.G. Flores, “Imperfection sensitivity of wind loaded tanks”, Int. J. Structural Engineering and Mechanics, vol. 13(5), pp. 533-542 (2002).
Flores, F. G. and Oñate, E. (2005). Improvements in the membrane behaviour of the three node rotational-free bst shell triangle using an assumed strain approach. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 194:907–932
Jaca, R.C., Godoy, L.A., Flores, F.G. and Croll, J.G.A. (2007). “A reduced stiffness approach for the buckling of open cylindrical tanks under wind loads”, Thin Walled Structures, Vol. 45, No. 9, pp. 727–736
Fernando G. Flores and Eugenio Oñate, “Wrinkling and folding analysis of elastic membranes using an enhanced rotation-free thin shell triangular element”, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Vol. 47, No. 9, pp 982-990, September 2011
Luis A. Godoy, Rossana C. Jaca, Eduardo M. Sosa and Fernando G. Flores
“A penalty approach to obtain lower bound buckling loads for imperfection-sensitive shells”, Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 95, pp 183-195, October 2015
Fernando Flores, “A simple reduced integration hexahedral solid-shell element for large strains”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 303, February 2016
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