Serendipity and bubble plus hierarchic finite elements for thin to thick plates

Structural Engineering and Mechanics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 433-448

  Della Croce, Lucia ^a   Scapolla, Terenzio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bubble functions; Conforming hierarchic finite elements; Reissner Mindlin plate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005277806     PISSN: 12254568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/sem.2000.9.5.433     Document Type: Article

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