Title:         A family of discontinuous Galerkin finite elements for
               the Reissner-Mindlin plate

Authors:       Douglas N. Arnold, Franco Brezzi, and Donatella Marini

Source:        Journal of Scientific Computing 22 (2005), pp. 25-41

Status:        Published

Abstract:      We develop a family of locking-free elements for  the
Reissner-Mindlin plate using Discontinuous Galerkin techniques,
one for each odd degree, and prove optimal error estimates.
A second family uses conforming elements for the rotations
and nonconforming elements for the transverse displacement,
generalizing the element of Arnold and Falk to higher degree.

Keywords:      discontinuous Galerkin, Reissner-Mindlin plate, locking

Subj. class.:  65N30

URL:           http://ima.umn.edu/~arnold/papers/dgrm.pdf