Title
An ultraweak formulation of the Reissner-Mindlin plate bending model and DPG approximation.
Abstract
We develop and analyze an ultraweak variational formulation of the Reissner–Mindlin plate bending model both for the clamped and the soft simply supported cases. We prove well-posedness of the formulation, uniformly with respect to the plate thickness t. We also prove weak convergence of the Reissner–Mindlin solution to the solution of the corresponding Kirchhoff–Love model when $$t\rightarrow 0$$. Based on the ultraweak formulation, we introduce a discretization of the discontinuous Petrov–Galerkin type with optimal test functions (DPG) and prove its uniform quasi-optimal convergence. Our theory covers the case of non-convex polygonal plates. A numerical experiment for some smooth model solutions with fixed load confirms that our scheme is locking free.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s00211-020-01116-0
Numerische Mathematik
Keywords
DocType
Volume
74S05, 74K20, 35J35, 65N30, 35J67
Journal
145
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0029-599X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Führer13711.17
Norbert Heuer226339.70
Francisco‐Javier Sayas327437.78