@Article{cmes.2008.030.077,
AUTHOR = {J.  Sladek, V.  Sladek, P.  Solek, P.H.  Wen, S.N.  Atluri},
TITLE = {Thermal Analysis of Reissner-Mindlin Shallow Shells with FGM Properties by the MLPG},
JOURNAL = {Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences},
VOLUME = {30},
YEAR = {2008},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {77--98},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CMES/v30n2/25155},
ISSN = {1526-1506},
ABSTRACT = {A meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method is applied to solve problems of Reissner-Mindlin shells under thermal loading. Both stationary and thermal shock loads are analyzed here. Functionally graded materials with a continuous variation of properties in the shell thickness direction are considered here. A weak formulation for the set of governing equations in the Reissner-Mindlin theory is transformed into local integral equations on local subdomains in the base plane of the shell by using a unit test function. Nodal points are randomly spread on the surface of the plate and each node is surrounded by a circular subdomain to which local integral equations are applied. The meshless approximation based on the Moving Least-Squares (MLS) method is employed for the implementation.},
DOI = {10.3970/cmes.2008.030.077}
}