An improved treatment of transverse shear in the mindlin-type four-node quadrilateral element

Influence of Rotatory Inertia and Shear on Flexural Motions of Isotropic, Elastic Plates

R. D. Mindlin · Journal of Applied Mechanics · 1951 · 5K citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics +16

A simple and efficient finite element for plate bending

Thomas J.R. Hughes, Robert L. Taylor, Worsak Kanok‐Nukulchai · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering · 1977 · 666 citations

Engineering, Computational Engineering, Computational Mechanics +15

Explicit algorithms for the nonlinear dynamics of shells

Ted Belytschko, Jerry I. Lin, Tsay Chen-Shyh · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering · 1984 · 658 citations

Engineering, Computational Engineering, Physics +14

Finite Elements Based Upon Mindlin Plate Theory With Particular Reference to the Four-Node Bilinear Isoparametric Element

Thomas J.R. Hughes, Tayfun E. Tezduyar · Journal of Applied Mechanics · 1981 · 645 citations

Computing, Computational Engineering, Computational Geometry +16

Reduced and selective integration techniques in the finite element analysis of plates

Thomas J.R. Hughes, M. F. Cohen, Medhat Haroun · Nuclear Engineering and Design · 1978 · 619 citations

Engineering, Computational Engineering, Computational Mechanics +13