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    Shear internal forces in Kirchoff element plate

    Thank you WARrose, I found this book very useful. There are formulas on p.327 for Kirchoff plates, and they seem to be the same as those I used. I will then try to search for mistakes I made during calculations of derivation of matrix B. Regards, kris
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    Shear internal forces in Kirchoff element plate

    Hi WARose. There is no software. I am trying to write my own software - I wrote triangular mesher on the region, and that is why I am trying to use triangle element based on Kirchoff's theory. Quad meshing is too tricky for me. I am using shape functions from CKZ triangle. In FEM (Kirchoff's...
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    Shear internal forces in Kirchoff element plate

    Hi, I am trying to calculate shear internal forcesin the plate (Kirchoff triangle elements with three nodes), but I do not know how to get them. I meshed simple rectangular plate with triangles, I solved global equation system, so I have displacements in each node (vertical movement and two...

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