Analysis of a mixed finite element method for the Reissner-Mindlin plate problems

✍ Scribed by C. Lovadina

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 921 KB
• Volume: 163
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0045-7825
• DOI: 10.1016/s0045-7825(98)00003-6

✦ Synopsis

An analysis of a triangular mixed finite element method, proposed by Taylor and Auricchio (cf. [ 131) is presented. The method is based on a linked interpolation between deflections and rotations in order to avoid the locking phenomenon (cf. [ 151). The analysis shows that the approximated deflections and rotations are first order convergent to the exact solution, uniformly in the thickness.