HAL Id: hal-02352879 https://hal.science/hal-02352879v1 Submitted on 7 Nov 2019 (v1), last revised 9 Dec 2019 (v2) HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- entific research documents, whether they are pub- lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. A discrete, geometrically exact method for simulating nonlinear, elastic or non-elastic beams Claire Lestringant, Basile Audoly, Dennis Kochmann To cite this version: Claire Lestringant, Basile Audoly, Dennis Kochmann. A discrete, geometrically exact method for simulating nonlinear, elastic or non-elastic beams. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, In press. hal-02352879v1