A refined 5-node plate bending element based on Reissner-Mindlin theory

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 385-403

  Sofuoglu, Hasan ^a   Gedikli, Hasan ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Plate bending; Refined conforming 4 node element; Refined conforming 5 node element; Reissner Mindlin plate

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

PLATE BENDING; REISSNER-MINDLIN THEORY;

PLATE METAL;

BENDING STRENGTH; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLATE METAL;

EID: 34248380169     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.914     Document Type: Article

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