An optimally constrained 4 node quadrilateral thin plate bending element

DOI10.1016/0045-7949(84)90025-7zbMath0531.73050OpenAlexW2083099595MaRDI QIDQ3313402

Gangan Prathap

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Computers & Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0045-7949(84)90025-7

zbMATH Keywords

isoparametric elementthin-plate theoryMindlin's plate theorytransverse displacementgrid-distortionbi- linear interpolationchoice of number of constraintseffect of grid-orientationface rotationsfour-noded quadrilateral plate bending elementoptimal integration of quadrilateral plate bending elementsoptimal set of Kirchhoff constraintspenalty function type formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plates (74K20) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Optimization problems in solid mechanics (74P99) Numerical and other methods in solid mechanics (74S99)

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