We present an inf-sup test for general mixed shell finite element discretizations. The test is useful in the thorough evaluation of a shell finite element discretization scheme. We apply the test to the MITC shell elements and find that these elements pass the test.
@article{hal-00839276,
author = {Bathe, Klaus-J\"urgen and Iosilevich, Alexander and Chapelle, Dominique},
title = {An inf-sup test for shell finite elements},
journal = {HAL},
volume = {2000},
number = {0},
year = {2000},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/hal-00839276}
}
Bathe, Klaus-Jürgen; Iosilevich, Alexander; Chapelle, Dominique. An inf-sup test for shell finite elements. HAL, Tome 2000 (2000) no. 0, . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/hal-00839276/