A Triangular Plate Element with Drilling Degrees of Freedom, for Large Rotation Analyses of Built-up Plate/Shell Structures, Based on the Reissner Variational Principle and the von Karman Nonlinear Theory in the Co-rotational Reference Frame

DOI10.3970/cmes.2010.061.273zbMath1231.74403MaRDI QIDQ3112887

Yongchang Cai, Satya N. Atluri, Jeom Kee Paik

Publication date: 6 February 2012

Full work available at URL: https://www.techscience.com/doi/10.3970/cmes.2010.061.273.html

zbMATH Keywords

large deformation; Reissner variational principle; drilling degrees of freedom; updated Lagrangian formulation; thin plate/shell; explicit tangent stiffness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74K20: Plates

74S05: Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics

65N30: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs