Mesh-free radial basis function method for buckling analysis of non-uniformly loaded arbitrarily shaped shear deformable plates

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 193, Issue 3-5, 2004, Pages 205-224

  Liew, K M ^a,b   Chen, X L ^a   Reddy, J N ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Buckling; Mesh free method; Non uniform load; Radial basis function; Shear deformable plate

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORMABILITY; SHEAR STRESS;

RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION (RBF) METHOD;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BUCKLING; PLATE;

EID: 0347300455     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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