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Complements on Plate Problems

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In this chapter, we shall present a few among many applications of mixed methods to plate problems. In the first section, we shall describe a mixed method for the linear thin plates theory and in the second, a dual hybrid method. In the last section, we shall report some recent results on the discretisation of the Mindlin-Reissner formulation for moderately thick plates.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica “F. Casorati”, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Daniele Boffi

  2. IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori), Pavia, Italy

    Franco Brezzi

  3. Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

    Michel Fortin

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Boffi, D., Brezzi, F., Fortin, M. (2013). Complements on Plate Problems. In: Mixed Finite Element Methods and Applications. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36519-5_10

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