Two conforming quadrilateral spline elements for thin plate bending using area coordinates and B-net method

摘要

In mathematics, splines are piecewise polynomials satisfying certain continuity conditions. The shape functions can be treated as splines. It has been demonstrated that the spline method is an effcient tool for developing effective elements. In this paper, we represent two conforming quadrilateral thin plate elements by the triangular area coordinates and B-net method.