Natural element approximation of Reissner-Mindlin plate for locking-free numerical analysis of plate-like thin elastic structures

DOI10.1016/j.cma.2012.12.015zbMath1352.74161MaRDI QIDQ502509

Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 5 January 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2012.12.015

zbMATH Keywords

approximation; constant curvature; shear locking; Reissner-Mindlin plate; Laplace interpolation function; rotation-free mixed natural element; Voronoi polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74B05: Classical linear elasticity

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