[semiOT] looking for help on FEM problem

[Benoit Maag]

Hi Cyrille,

My gut feeling is that an FEM calculation is unnecessary for what you want to do and that what you really need to do is find the distribution of support points which minimizes the distance between them

Otherwise, Timoshenko’s theory of plates and shells (https://archive.org/details/TheoryOfPlat...s/page/n33) has all the calculations for plate deformations but it is not fun to read...