The motivation for the research reviewed in this paper was provided by studies such as
indicated in Fig. l (a) which show some results obtained with the widely used 9-node …

An accurate and robust stabilization based on the assumed strain method and an operator
orthogonal to constant strain fields is presented for an eight-node hexahedral element with …

This paper deals with the formulation and the evaluation of a new three node, nine dof
triangular plate bending element valid for the analysis of thick to thin plates. The formulation …

Bittnar and Sejnoha clearly examine the nature and theoretical basis of the most popular
numerical methods in structural mechanics-the finite elementary method (FEM) and the …

A non‐linear shallow thin shell element is described. The element is a curved quadrilateral
one with corner nodes only. At each node, six degrees of freedom (ie three translations and …

This paper surveys about 350 publications related to the finite element models of moderately
thick shells, concentrating on those related to consistent displacement and …

A very simple way to obtain a quadrilateral shell element is to write membrane and bending
stiffness matrices for a flat geometry and add them. This basic membrane-plus-bending …

A family of rotation-free three node triangular shell elements is presented. The simplest
element of the family is based on an assumed constant curvature field expressed in terms of …

A new discontinuous Galerkin method for elliptic problems which is capable of rendering the
same set of unknowns in the final system of equations as for the continuous displacement …

A simple, shear flexible, quadrilateral plate element is developed based on the
Hellinger/Reissner mixed variational principle with independently assumed displacement …