Title
Analysis of some low order quadrilateral Reissner-Mindlin plate elements
Abstract
Four quadrilateral elements for the Reissner-Mindlin plate model are considered. The elements are the stabilized MITC4 element of Lyly, Stenberg and Vihinen (1933), the MIN4 element of Tessler and Hughes (1983), the Q4BL element of Zienkiewicz et al. (1993) and the FMIN4 element of Kikuchi and Ishii (1999). For all elements except the Q4BL element, a unifying variational formulation is introduced, and optimal H-1 and L-2 error bounds uniform in the plate thickness are proven. Moreover, we propose a modified Q4BL element and show that it admits the optimal H-1 and L-2 error bounds uniform in the plate thickness. In particular, we study the convergence behavior of all elements regarding the mesh distortion.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1090/S0025-5718-06-01833-3
MATHEMATICS OF COMPUTATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
Reissner-Mindlin plate,stabilized methods,locking-free
Convergence (routing),Mathematical analysis,Quadrilateral,Numerical analysis,Distortion,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
75
255
0025-5718
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.43
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pingbing Ming17212.02
Zhong-ci Shi29712.23