| Abstract: | ![]()
A new formulation of a 16-degree-of-freedom conforming quadrilateral plate bending element using the Cartesian co-ordinates is presented. The displacement function w is taken as a slight modification of bicubic polynomial in the Cartesian co-ordinates. Use of this expression in the construction of finite element representations is expected to be useful specially for microcomputers. The simple stiffness matrix subroutine, coded in FORTRAN 77, for the general quadrilateral plate bending element is listed in the Appendix. |
