“…In the so‐called linked interpolation, the displacement field is interpolated using a one‐degree higher polynomial than the polynomial that interpolates the rotational unknowns, and it has been widely used and thoroughly investigated in finite‐element applications of the Timoshenko beams
33,36,38,39,66 and the Reissner–Mindlin plates
42,54 . The linked interpolation considered here is in its general, problem‐independent, form for a beam with
nodes presented in Reference
32 as
derived from the analytical solution of the differential equation of the spatial Timoshenko beam.…”