Analysis for quadrilateral MITC elements for the Reissner-Mindlin plate problem

Analysis for quadrilateral MITC elements for the Reissner-Mindlin plate problem

The present paper is made up of two parts. In the first part, we study the mathematical stability and convergence of the quadrilateral MITC elements for the Reissner-Mindlin plate problem in an abstract setting. We generalize the Brezzi-Bathe-Fortin conditions to the quadrilateral MITC elements by weakening the second and fourth conditions. Under these conditions, we show the well-posedness of ...

Analysis of some low order quadrilateral Reissner-Mindlin plate elements

Four quadrilateral elements for the Reissner-Mindlin plate model are considered. The elements are the stabilized MITC4 element of Lyly, Stenberg and Vihinen [27], the MIN4 element of Tessler and Hughes [35], the Q4BL element of Zienkiewicz et al [39] and the FMIN4 element of Kikuchi and Ishii [21]. For all elements except the Q4BL element, a unifying variational formulation is introduced, and o...

Finite Elements for the Reissner-Mindlin Plate

Robust BDDC Preconditioners for Reissner-Mindlin Plate Bending Problems and MITC Elements

A Balancing Domain Decomposition Method by Constraints (BDDC) is constructed and analyzed for the Reissner-Mindlin plate bending problem discretized with MITC finite elements. This BDDC algorithm is based on selecting the plate rotations and deflection degrees of freedom at the subdomain vertices as primal continuity constraints. After the implicit elimination of the interior degrees of freedom...

Some New Elements for the Reissner–Mindlin Plate Model

In this work-in-progress we report on a new approach to obtaining stable locking-free discretizations of the Reissner–Mindlin plate model. For a plate of thickness t with midplane section Ω ⊂ R the clamped Reissner–Mindlin plate model determines ω , the transverse displacement of the midplane, and φ , the rotation of fibers normal to the midplane, as the unique minimizer over H̊1(Ω)× H̊(Ω) of the...