Bending of Nonconforming Thin Plates Based on the Mixed-Order Manifold Method with Background Cells for Integration

<div>An annular plate with its outer edge being simply supported and its inner edge being free (a); 0.2 × 0.2 mesh of the plate divided for the proposed NMM and the traditional NMM (b); the mesh with 3200 elements of the plate divided for the FEM (c).</div>

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

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Figure 13: Bending of Nonconforming Thin Plates Based on the Mixed-Order Manifold Method with Background Cells for Integration 