A meshless numerical method for Kirchhoff plates under arbitrary loadings

Computers, Materials and Continua

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 197-218

  Tsai, Chia Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dual reciprocity method; Method of fundamental solutions; Multiquadrics; Polyharmonic spline

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; ARBITRARY LOADING; DISTRIBUTED LOADING; DUAL RECIPROCITY METHODS; FIRST ORDER; HIGH ORDER; KIRCHHOFF PLATES; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; MESHLESS NUMERICAL METHOD; METHOD OF FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTIONS; MULTIQUADRICS; NONHOMOGENEOUS PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTICULAR SOLUTION; POLYHARMONIC SPLINES; SHEAR FORCE; SOLUTION PROCEDURE; THIN PLATE SPLINE;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; LOADING; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPLINES;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 79961094506     PISSN: 15462218     EISSN: 15462226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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