A meshless local Petrov-Galerkin method for the analysis of cracks in the isotropic functionally graded material

Computers, Materials and Continua

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-57

  Liu, K Y ^a,b   Long, S Y ^a   Li, G Y ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Mid south Design and Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Functionally graded material; Interaction integral; MLPG; Stress intensity factor

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

INTERACTION INTEGRALS; MOVING LEAST SQUARES (MLS);

FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS;

EID: 44649167789     PISSN: 15462218     EISSN: 15462226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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