Arnold, Douglas N.Brezzi, FrancoMarini, L. Donatella2007-08-162007-08-162003-10https://hdl.handle.net/11299/3948We develop a family of locking-free elements for the Reissner-Mindlin plate using Discontinuous Galerkin techniques, one for each odd degree, and prove optimal error estimates. A second family uses conforming elements for the rotations and nonconforming elements for the transverse displacement, generalizing the element of Arnold and Falk to higher degree.