A four-noded thin-plate bending element using shear constraints - A modified version of Lyons' element

DOI10.1016/0045-7825(83)90031-2zbMath0515.73069OpenAlexW1984252250MaRDI QIDQ1052148

J. Blot

Publication date: 1983

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0045-7825(83)90031-2

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examplespatch testFortran subroutinesconstraints derived in explicit algebraic formfour-noded thin-plate bending elementgeneral quadrilateralgeneration of element stiffness matrixresults identical for rectangles and parallelograms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plates (74K20) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Numerical and other methods in solid mechanics (74S99) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to mechanics of deformable solids (74-04)

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