TY - JOUR T1 - Nonconforming Quadrilateral Rotated $Q_1$ Element for Reissner-Mindlin Plate JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 1 SP - 25 EP - 32 PY - 2003 DA - 2003/02 SN - 21 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/8873.html KW - Reissner-Mindlin Plate, Quadrilateral Rotated $Q_1$ element, Locking-free. AB -

 In this paper, we extend two rectangular elements for Reissner-Mindlin plate [9] to the quadrilateral case. Optimal ${\rm H}^1$ and ${\rm L}^2$ error bounds independent of the plate thickness are derived under a mild assumption on the mesh partition.