Innovative isogeometric formulations for shear deformable beams and plates,

We present different innovative formulations for shear deformable beams and plates exploiting the high inter-element continuity provided by NURBS basis functions. We develop isogeometric collocation methods in standard and mixed formulations as well as Galerkin methods using an alternative set of discrete variables. All methods are free of shear locking, which is confirmed by numerical tests