Essential boundary conditions in meshfree methods via a modified variational principle. Applications to shell computations

Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 123-142

  Skatulla, Sebastian ^a   Sansour, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Essential boundary conditions; Meshfree methods; Moving least square method; Shell analysis

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT LANDING SYSTEMS; CURVE FITTING; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STABILIZATION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

APPROXIMATION ACCURACIES; BOUNDARY APPROXIMATIONS; ESSENTIAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GREEN STRAIN TENSORS; HYPER ELASTICS; ITERATION PROCEDURES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER METHODS; MESHFREE METHODS; MOVING LEAST SQUARE METHOD; MOVING LEAST SQUARES; NON-LINEAR; NON-LINEAR PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; SHELL ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION PARAMETERS; STRUCTURAL MECHANICS; VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

EID: 61349193835     PISSN: 1232308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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