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We propose a new mixed variational formulation for the equations of linear elasticity. It does not require symmetric tensors and consequently is easy to discretize by adapting mixed finite elements developed for scalar second order elliptic equations.
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Dedicated to Professor Ivo Babuška on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday
Supported by NSF Grant DMS-8313247
Supported by NSF Grant DMS-8402616
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Arnold, D.N., Falk, R.S. A new mixed formulation for elasticity. Numer. Math. 53, 13–30 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01395876
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