Solution of Mindlin Plates with Unilateral Contact Supports by a Direct Formulation

Alicia N. Bergmann, Roberto S. Carnicer, Héctor C. Sanzi

Abstract


The present work deals with the nonlinear behavior of
plates with unilateral supports within the classic elastic
theory. The analysis is carried out by using a direct formulation through the minimization of the total potential energy functional with restrictions. The introduction of the finite element technique leads to a quadratic programming problem to be solved by Lemke's algoritms.

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