TY  - EJOU
AU  - Sladek, J.  
AU  - Sladek, V.  
AU  - Solek, P.  
AU  - Wen, P.H.  
AU  - Atluri, S.N.  

TI  - Thermal Analysis of Reissner-Mindlin Shallow Shells with FGM Properties by the MLPG
T2  - Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences

PY  - 2008
VL  - 30
IS  - 2
SN  - 1526-1506

AB  - 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.
KW  - Meshless local Petrov-Galerkin method (MLPG)
KW  -  Moving least-squares (MLS) approximation
KW  -  functionally graded materials
KW  -  thermal load

DO  - 10.3970/cmes.2008.030.077