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A Hybrid Quadrilateral Plate Bending Element for the Inclusion of Warping Based on a Three-Dimensional Plate Formulation

Piltner, Reinhard

UCB/SEMM-1990/16, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1990-08, 33 pages (500/C23/90/16)

A plate formulation for the inclusion of warping and transverse shear deformation is considered. From a complete thick and thin plate formulation which was derived without ad hoc assumptions from the three-dimensional equations of elasticity for isotropic materials, the bending solution, involving powers of the thickness coordinate z, is used for constructing a quadrilateral finite plate bending element.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-90-16.pdf (15 MB)