Meshless local Petrov-Galerkin formulation for problems in composite micromechanics

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 912-921

  Dang, Thi D ^a,b,c   Sankar, Bhavani V ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATERIAL DISCONTINUITY; MICROMECHANICAL ANALYSIS; PETROV-GALERKIN METHOD;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELASTIC CONSTANTS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PROBLEM SOLVING; STRAIN;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 34247360770     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.23434     Document Type: Article

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