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FEM MATLAB Code for Linear and Nonlinear Bending Analysis of Plates
Amit Patil (KTH Mechanics, Stockholm) aspatil07@gmail.com
Siva Srinivas Kolukula (Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research Kalpakkam, India)
allwayzitzme@gmail.com
References:
1] Siva Srinivas Kolukula, MATLAB FEM Program for Linear Bending Analysis of
Plates,
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2008.
3] A.H. Sheikh and M. Mukhopadhyay, Geometric Nonlinear Analysis of Stiffened Plates
by the Spline Finite Strip Method, Computers and Structures, 76, 765-785, 2000.
4] A. Pica, R.D. Wood, and E. Hinton, Finite Element Analysis of Geometrically Non-
linear Plate Behaviour using a Mindlin Formulation, Computers and Structures, 11,
203–215, 1980.
5] O.C. Zienkiewicz, R.L. Taylor and D.D. Fox, The Finite Element Method for Solid
and Structural Mechanics, Elsvier Publications, 2014.
6] MATLAB R2012b, MathWorks Inc., 2015
7] COMSOL Multiphysics 5, COMSOL AB, 2015
Contribution
1] The linear MATLAB code is taken from first two references, our contribution is lim-
ited to few modifications.
2] The nonlinear FEM code is written by us.
3] The linear FEM theory is based on reference [2] and [5].
4] The nonlinear FEM theory is based on references [3], [4] and [5].
5] The verifications of results is done with help of FEM software, COMSOL Multiphysics.
Notes
1] This open-source code is for FEM and MATLAB beginners. So if you find any mis-
take, please write us an email.
2] Only brief introduction of theory is given here; for detail theory please read books on
Mechanics of Solids, Finite Element Methods.
3] While writing theory it is assumed that student have some basic knowledge of sym-
bols, notations, nomenclatures and definitions etc.
URL for downloading FEM MATLAB code files
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FEM MATLAB Code for Linear and Nonlinear Bending Analysis of Plates
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