Accurate Numerical Solutions for Standard Skew Plate Benchmark Problems

Abstract

Morley’s skew plate and Razzaque’s skew plate are two standard benchmarkproblems used for the performance evaluation of plate finite elements. The referencesolutions for these problems are given for the thin plate case only, and variousplate finite elements do not converge to these solutions exactly. Accurate numericalsolutions for these skew plate problems are proposed in this paper, which are basedon the finite element analysis on very dense meshes for thin to thick plate cases.