A curvilinear triangular finite element for plate bending by a hybrid method of assumed displacements supplemented with assumed stresses

DOI10.1016/0045-7949(84)90130-5zbMath0523.73058OpenAlexW1988352561MaRDI QIDQ3674186

L. S. D. Morley

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)90130-5

zbMATH Keywords

plate bending problemsassumed displacements supplemented with assumed stressescurvilinear triangular finite elementelement designed to pass exactly patch test for constant curvature changes when flexural rigidity constantgeometry in quadratic parametric representationimbedded in Kirchhoff theoryrigid body movements exactly recovered

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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