A finite element method for the buckling problem of simply supported Kirchhoff plates
A finite element method for the buckling problem of simply supported Kirchhoff plates
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10.1016/j.cam.2015.02.018
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2015-10
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Felipe Millar;D. Mora
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作者:
Felipe Millar;D. Mora
The aim of this paper is to develop a finite element method to approximate the buckling problem of simply supported Kirchhoff plates subjected to general plane stress tensor. We introduce an auxiliary variable w:= Δ u (with u representing the displacement of the plate) to write a variational formulation of the spectral problem. We propose a conforming discretization of the problem, where the unknowns are approximated by piecewise linear and continuous finite elements. We show that the resulting scheme provides a correct approximation of the spectrum and prove optimal order error estimates for the eigenfunctions and a double order for the eigenvalues. Finally, we present some numerical experiments supporting our theoretical results.