Abstract
In recent years a family of finite elements named mixed interpolated tensorial components (MITC) has been introduced for the numerical approximation of Reissner–Mindlin plates. The elements have been proved to be locking free. In this article, we consider the MITC rectangular finite elements and show that it is possible to reduce the number of internal degrees of freedom in the approximation of the rotation field without losing order of convergence. Our mathematical analysis is carried out combining some results for the Stokes problem with the special features of the MITC finite elements. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 13: 575–585, 1997
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