A Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) formulation for static and free vibration analyses of thin plates

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 463-476

  Gu, Y T ^b   Liu, Gui Rong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Free Vibration; Kirchhoff plates; Meshless Local Petrov Galerkin (MLPG) method; Meshless Method; Numerical Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012255432     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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