Analysis of some low order quadrilateral Reissner-Mindlin plate elements

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 75, Issue 255, 2006, Pages 1043-1065

  Ming, Pingbing ^a   Shi, Zhong Ci ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND SCIENTIFIC ENGINEERING COMPUTING   (China)

Author keywords

Locking free; Reissner Mindlin plate; Stabilized methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746371035     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-06-01833-3     Document Type: Article

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