Oñate, E.; Taylor, R. L.; Zienkiewicz, O. C. Consistent formulation of shear constrained Reissner-Mindlin plate elements. (English) Zbl 0728.73071 Discretization methods in structural mechanics, Proc. IUTAM/IACM Symp., Vienna/Aust. 1989, 169-180 (1990). Summary: [For the entire collection see Zbl 0707.00025.] In this paper the necessary requirements for the good behaviour of shear constrained Reissner-Mindlin plate elements for thick and thin plate situations are discussed and a simple explicit form of the substitute shear strain matrix is derived. This is applied to the development of some new triangular plate elements which show promising features. Some examples of the good behaviour of one of those elements are given. Cited in 1 Document MSC: 74S05 Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics 74K20 Plates Keywords:thick and thin plate; simple explicit form of the substitute shear strain matrix; triangular plate elements Citations:Zbl 0707.00025 PDFBibTeX XML