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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 22
ADVANCES IN FINITE ELEMENT TECHNIQUES
Edited by: M. Papadrakakis and B.H.V. Topping
Paper I.7

Mixed Finite Elements for Reissner-Mindlin Plate Model

C. Chinosi and C. Lovadina

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
C. Chinosi, C. Lovadina, "Mixed Finite Elements for Reissner-Mindlin Plate Model", in M. Papadrakakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Advances in Finite Element Techniques", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 33-38, 1994. doi:10.4203/ccp.22.1.7
Abstract
We deal with the approximation of the Reissner-Mindlin plate problem by means of finite element techniques. We consider a non standard mixed formulation recently proposed by Arnold and Brezzi. These methods are based on a suitable splitting, depending on a parameter, of the shear energy term into two parts, one of them is exactly integrated, while for the second one a reduced integration formula is used. In this paper we analyze the numerical behaviour of the approximate solution varying the splitting parameter and we propose a recipe for its choice.

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