The Meshless Local Petrov–Galerkin method (MLPG) is one of the popular meshless methods that has been used very successfully to solve several types of boundary value problems since the late nineties. In this paper, using a generalized moving least squares (GMLS) approximation, a new direct MLPG technique, called DMLPG, is presented. Following the principle of meshless methods to express everyth...

In this paper, a meshless method for solving the eigenproblems of plate vibration using the radial basis function (RBF) is proposed. By employing the RBF in the imaginary-part fundamental solution, spurious eigenequations in conjunction with the true ones are obtained at the same time. Mathematical analysis for the appearance of spurious eigenequations by using degenerate kernel and circulant i...

This is the second in a series of two papers generated from a study on probabilistic meshless analysis of cracks. In this paper, a stochastic meshless method is presented for probabilistic fracture-mechanics analysis of linear-elastic cracked structures. The method involves an element-free Galerkin method for calculating fracture response characteristics; statistical models of uncertainties in ...

The Finite Difference Method (FDM), within the framework of the Meshless Local PetrovGalerkin (MLPG) approach, is proposed in this paper for solving solid mechanics problems. A “mixed” interpolation scheme is adopted in the present implementation: the displacements, displacement gradients, and stresses are interpolated independently using identical MLS shape functions. The system of algebraic e...

This paper presents an efficient meshless method for analyzing cracked piezoelectric structures subjected to mechanical and electrical loading. In this method, an element free Galerkin (EFG) formulation, an enriched basic function and some special shape functions that contain discontinuous derivatives are employed. Based on the moving least squares (MLS) interpolation approach, the EFG method i...

The Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) mixed collocation method is proposed in this paper, for solving elasticity problems. In the present MLPG approach, the mixed scheme is applied to interpolate the displacements and stresses independently, as in the MLPG finite volume method. To improve the efficiency, the local weak form is established at the nodal points, for the stresses, by using the ...

The Local Point Interpolation Method (LPIM) is a newly developed truly meshless method, based on the idea of Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) approach. In this paper, a new LPIM formulation is proposed to deal with 4th order boundary-value and initial-value problems for static and dynamic analysis (stability, free vibration and forced vibration) of beams. Local weak forms are developed usi...

|Although numerically very e cient the nite element method exhibits di culties whenever the remeshing of the analysis domain must be performed. For such problems utilizing meshless computation methods is very promising. In this paper, a kind of meshless method called the element-free Galerkin method is introduced for electromagnetic eld computation. The mathematical background for the moving le...

The finite element method (FEM) has been commonly employed in a variety of fields as a computer simulation method to solve such problems as solid, fluid, electro-magnetic phenomena and so on. However, creation of a quality mesh for the problem domain is a prerequisite when using FEM, which becomes a major part of the cost of a simulation. It is natural that the concept of meshless method has ev...