A C0 discontinuous Galerkin formulation for Kirchhoff plates

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 196, Issue 35-36, 2007, Pages 3370-3380

  Wells, Garth N ^a   Dung, Nguyen Tien ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin methods; Plate bending; Rotation free; Stability

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

A PRIORI ERROR ESTIMATION; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; KIRCHHOFF PLATE;

GALERKIN METHODS;

BUCKLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 34250347186     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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