“…For thin plates, only two points are used in thickness direction, and for a good accuracy in calculation of stiffness matrix, Gauss quadrature rule has been applied . Three‐dimensional displacements could be defined as follows: where u ijk , v ijk , and w ijk are nodal displacements; i , j , and k denote the index of nodes in the ξ , η , and ζ directions, respectively. In each element, H matrix, which relates displacement fields to nodal displacements, can be expressed as follows: …”