Embedded kinematic boundary conditions for thin plate bending by Nitsche's approach

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 99-114

  Harari, Isaac ^a   Shavelzon, Evgeny ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

B splines; Kinematic boundary conditions; Nitsche's method; Thin plate bending

Indexed keywords

B SPLINES; BILINEAR FORM; BOUNDARY CONSTRAINTS; CONTINUITY REQUIREMENTS; CORNER DEFLECTIONS; GENERALIZED EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; KINEMATIC ADMISSIBILITY; KINEMATIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NITSCHE'S METHOD; NONCONFORMING MESH; OPTIMAL RATE; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; STABILIZATION PARAMETERS; THIN-PLATE BENDING; VARIATIONAL FORMULATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTERPOLATION; STABILIZATION;

KINEMATICS;

EID: 84866448740     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.4337     Document Type: Article

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