  We present a new approach for adding Bernoulli beam reinforcements to
Kirchhoff plates. The plate is discretised using a continuous/discontinuous
finite element method based on standard continuous piecewise polynomial finite
element spaces. The beams are discretised by the CutFEM technique of letting
the basis functions of the plate represent also the beams which are allowed to
pass through the plate elements. This allows for a fast and easy way of
assessing where the plate should be supported, for instance, in an optimization
loop.
