This manuscript in post-review format was published in Engineering Strutures, and can be cited as follows M.V.B. Santana, L.I.W. Arnouts, T.J. Massart, P.B. Gonçalves, P.Z. Berke, Corotational 3D joint finite element tailored for the simulation of bistable deployable structures, Engineering Structures, 227, 2021, 111387 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.111387