A new approach to the differential quadrature method for fourth-order equations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1941-1956

  Chen, Weilong ^a   Striz, Alfred G ^a   Bert, Charles W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bernoulli Euler beams; Chebyshev and Lagrange basis functions; Differential Quadrature Method; Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions; DQM; Fourth order equations; Rectangular plates

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BERNOULLI EULER BEAMS; CHEBYSHEV BASIS FUNCTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE METHOD (DQM); DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FOURTH ORDER EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE BASIS FUNCTIONS; NEUMANN BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031170378     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19970615)40:11<1941::AID-NME145>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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