Title
Virtual elements for a shear-deflection formulation of Reissner-Mindlin plates.
Abstract
We present a virtual element method for the Reissner-Mindlin plate bending problem which uses shear strain and deflection as discrete variables without the need of any reduction operator. The proposed method is conforming in [H-1(Omega)](2) x H-2(Omega) and has the advantages of using general polygonal meshes and yielding a direct approximation of the shear strains. The rotations are then obtained by a simple post-process from the shear strain and deflection. We prove convergence estimates with involved constants that are uniform in the thickness t of the plate. Finally, we report numerical experiments which allow us to assess the performance of the method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1090/mcom/3331
MATHEMATICS OF COMPUTATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
Virtual element method,Reissner-Mindlin plates,error analysis,polygonal meshes
Convergence (routing),Deflection (engineering),Polygon,Shear (sheet metal),Polygon mesh,Mathematical analysis,Shear stress,Operator (computer programming),Mathematics,Bending of plates
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
88
315
0025-5718
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
L. Beirão da Veiga122321.23
David Mora2348.92
Gonzalo Rivera331.41