Integration technique for evaluating confluent hypergeometric functions and its application to functionally graded materials

Computers and Structures

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1039-1047

  Liu, G R ^a   Han, X ^a   Lam, K Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC WAVES; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; POLYNOMIALS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONFLUENT HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS (CHF); ERROR-CONTROLLED ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS (FGM); SOFTWARE PACKAGE MATLAB;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034829860     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(00)00197-8     Document Type: Article

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