Analysis of functionally graded plates by meshless method: A purely analytical formulation

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 639-650

  Wen, P H ^a   Aliabadi, M H ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functionally graded materials; Kirchhoff and Reissner plates; Laplace transform method; Meshless method; Radial basis function; Static and dynamic loads

Indexed keywords

KIRCHHOFF; LAPLACE TRANSFORM METHOD; MESH-LESS METHODS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC LOADS;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DYNAMIC LOADS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS;

EID: 84855467319     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enganabound.2011.11.017     Document Type: Article

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