Int. J. Numer. Anal. Mod., 1 (2004), pp. 65-74.


Constrained nonconforming rotated Q_1 finite element for Reissner-Mindlin plate

Jun Hu 1, Zhongci Shi 1

1 No 55, Zhong-Guan-Cun Dong Lu, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China

Received by the editors January 1, 2004 and, in revised form, March 22, 2004.
Abstract

In this paper, we study the Weissman-Taylor rectangular element for the Reissner-Mindlin plate [12] model and provide a convergence analysis for the transverse displacement and the rotation. We show that the element is stable and locking free, thereby improve the results of [8] and [9].

AMS subject classifications: 65N30
Key words: Reissner-Mindlin plate, Locking-free, Weissman-Taylor element
Email: hujun@lsec.cc.ac.cn (J. Hu), shi@lsec.cc.ac.cn (Z. Shi)
 

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