An accurate quadrilateral plate element based on energy optimization

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 487-498

  Luo, Kun ^a   Zhou, Tian Xiao ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Aeronautics Computing Technique Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Energy optimization; Mindlin Reissner plate; Mixed hybrid method; Shear locking

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BENDING MOMENTS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ENERGY OPTIMIZATION; MINDLIN-REISSNER PLATE; SHEAR LOCKING;

OPTIMIZATION;

ENERGY; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 24944444988     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.761     Document Type: Article

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