---
type: entity
title: "Eduardo N. Dvorkin"
entity_type: person
role: "Finite element researcher; co-author of the four-node shell element paper"
first_mentioned: "[[A Continuum Mechanics Based Four-Node Shell]]"
created: 2026-05-28
updated: 2026-05-28
address: c-000018
tags:
  - entity
  - finite-element-method
  - shell-elements
  - computational-mechanics
status: current
related:
  - "[[A Continuum Mechanics Based Four-Node Shell]]"
  - "[[Klaus-Jurgen Bathe]]"
  - "[[Continuum Mechanics Based Four-Node Shell Element]]"
sources:
  - "[[A Continuum Mechanics Based Four-Node Shell]]"
---

# Eduardo N. Dvorkin

## Overview

Eduardo N. Dvorkin is identified in the ingested source as a co-author, with [[Klaus-Jurgen Bathe]], of the paper on a continuum-mechanics-based four-node shell element for nonlinear analysis.

## Key Facts

- Co-author of [[A Continuum Mechanics Based Four-Node Shell]].
- The paper places the work in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- In this vault, Dvorkin is connected to shell finite element formulation, transverse shear locking remedies, and nonlinear structural analysis.

## Connections

- [[Continuum Mechanics Based Four-Node Shell Element]] captures the paper's element formulation.
- [[Assumed Transverse Shear Strain Interpolation]] captures the paper's key locking remedy.
- [[Total Lagrangian Shell Formulation]] captures the nonlinear kinematic setting.

## Sources

- [[A Continuum Mechanics Based Four-Node Shell]]