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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.

MSC:

74S05 Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics
74K20 Plates

Citations:

Zbl 0707.00025