“…In particular, the 332 element seems to have, as seen above, a better performance with respect to the element proposed in [18] with its carefully selected trigonometric shape functions. Both the elements, 221 and 332, show a better performance with respect to the E1.1b introduced by Krishnan et al [19], where an additional degree of freedom, the nodal shear strain, is added to the conventional ones at each node. The Fourier p-elements THICK-2 and THICK-1 seem to have a better behavior when few degrees of freedom are employed, but seem to hardly get the convergence.…”