Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) formulation for analysis of thick plates

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 349-357

  Soric J ^a   Li, Q ^b   Jarak, T ^a   Atluri, S N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Meshless formulation; Moving least squares approximation; Thick plates; Three dimensional solid concept

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRATION; INTERPOLATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

MESHLESS FORMULATION; MOVING LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATION; THICK PLATES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOLID CONCEPT;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 8344220613     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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