TY - JOUR T1 - On the Convergence of Weissman-Taylor Element for Reissner-Mindlin Plate AU - Hu , J. AU - Shi , Z.-C. JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling VL - 1 SP - 65 EP - 74 PY - 2004 DA - 2004/01 SN - 1 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnam/966.html KW - Reissner-Mindlin plate, Locking-free, Weissman-Taylor element. AB -
In this paper, we study the Weissman-Taylor rectangular element for the Reissner-Mindlin plate [12] model and provide a convergence analysis for the transverse displacement and the rotation. We show that the element is stable and locking free, thereby improve the results of [8] and [9].