Free vibration characteristics of continuous grading fiber orientation (CGFO) beams resting on variable Winkler and two-parameter elastic foundations have been studied. The beam is under different boundary conditions and assumed to have arbitrary variations of fiber orientation in the thickness direction. The governing differential equations for beam vibration are being solved using Generalized...

An accurate solution procedure based on the three-dimensional elasticity theory for the free vibration analysis of Functionally Graded Sandwich (FGS) plates is presented. Since no assumptions on stresses and displacements have been employed, it can be applied to the free vibration analysis of plates with arbitrary thickness. The two-constituent FGS plate consists of ceramic and metal graded thr...

In this paper, we have presented the Differential Quadrature Method (DQM) for finding the numerical solution of boundary-value problems for a singularly perturbed differential-difference equation of mixed type, i.e., containing both terms having a negative shift and terms having a positive shift. Such problems are associated with expected first exit time problems of the membrane potential in mo...

Differential quadrature method DQM is proposed for the numerical solution of oneand twospace dimensional hyperbolic telegraph equation subject to appropriate initial and boundary conditions. Both polynomial-based differential quadrature PDQ and Fourier-based differential quadrature FDQ are used in space directions while PDQ is made use of in time direction. Numerical solution is obtained by usi...

A quadrature-based mixed Petrov-Galerkin finite element method is applied to a fourth-order linear ordinary differential equation. After employing a splitting technique, a cubic spline trial space and a piecewise linear test space are considered in the method. The integrals are then replaced by the Gauss quadrature rule in the formulation itself. Optimal order a priori error estimates are obtai...

A kind of generalized quadrature formulae of maximal degree of precision for numerical integration of analytic functions is considered. Precisely, a general weighted quadrature of Birkhoff-Young type with 4n+3 nodes and degree of precision 6n+5 is studied. Its nodes are characterized by an orthogonality relation and a general numerical method for their computation is given. Special cases and nu...

Polynomial approximations of computationally intensive models are central to uncertainty quantification. This paper describes an adaptive method for nonintrusive pseudospectral approximation, based on Smolyak’s algorithm with generalized sparse grids. We rigorously analyze and extend the nonadaptive method proposed in [P. G. Constantine, M. S. Eldred, and E. T. Phipps, Comput. Methods Appl. Mec...