Large deformations in the case of rockfall-protection nets lead to the need of finite elements capable of capturing non-linearities for a finite element simulation. The open-source software KRATOS which is advanced strongly by both the university BarcelonaTech in Barcelona,Spain and the TUM in Munich, Germany is chosen in this thesis to be used for that purpose. Besides a non-linear truss element and a co-rotational beam element a special 4-node ring-element developed at the ETH in Zurich,Switzerland are discussed and implemented. Test cases for all three elements are done to verify their correctness. Finally real world experiments are simulated.     «

Large deformations in the case of rockfall-protection nets lead to the need of finite elements capable of capturing non-linearities for a finite element simulation. The open-source software KRATOS which is advanced strongly by both the university BarcelonaTech in Barcelona,Spain and the TUM in Munich, Germany is chosen in this thesis to be used for that purpose. Besides a non-linear truss element and a co-rotational beam element a special 4-node ring-element developed at the ETH in Zurich,Switze...     »