Development of a new quadrilateral thin plate element using area coordinates

DOI10.1016/S0045-7825(99)00457-0zbMath1005.74072MaRDI QIDQ1595374

Song Cen, Zhifei Long, Ai-Kah Soh

Publication date: 19 February 2003

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

compatibility conditionsstiffness matrixCartesian coordinatesarea coordinateselement ACGCQgeneralized conforming approachquadrilateral thin plate bending element

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plates (74K20) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

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