Analysis of isotropic, sandwich and laminated plates by a meshless method and various shear deformation theories

Composite Structures

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-37

  Xiang, Song ^a   Wang, Ke ming ^a   Ai, Yan ting ^a   Sha, Yun dong ^a   Shi, Hong ^a  

^a SHENYANG AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Inverse multiquadric radial basis functions; Isotropic; Laminated plates; Meshless; Sandwich; Shear deformation theory

Indexed keywords

INVERSE MULTIQUADRIC RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; ISOTROPIC; LAMINATED PLATES; MESHLESS; SANDWICH; SHEAR DEFORMATION THEORY;

LAMINATING; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

SHEAR DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; LAMINATE; SHEAR PROPERTY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349177747     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2009.04.029     Document Type: Article

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