Free and forced vibrations of a segmented bar by a Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) formulation

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 473-491

  Batra, R C ^a   Porfiri, M ^a   Spinello, D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence analysis; Inf sup condition; Material discontinuities; MLPG method; Segmented bar

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LOADS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GALERKIN METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS; INF-SUP CONDITION; MATERIAL DISCONTINUITIES; MESHLESS LOCAL BUBNOV-GALERKIN (MLPG6); SEGMENTED BARS;

VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 36949023617     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-006-0049-6     Document Type: Article

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