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Elastostatic Deformations of a Thick Plate by using a Higher-Order Shear and Normal Deformable Plate Theory and two Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) Methods

L. F. Qian^1,3, R. C. Batra², L. M. Chen³

1 Presently visiting scholar at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2 Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, M/C 0219, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
3 Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, P.R. China

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2003, 4(1), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.3970/cmes.2003.004.161

Abstract

We use two meshless local Petrov-Galerkin formulations, namely, the MLPG1 and the MLPG5, to analyze infinitesimal deformations of a homogeneous and isotropic thick elastic plate with a higher-order shear and normal deformable plate theory. It is found that the two MLPG formulations give results very close to those obtained by other researchers and also by the three-dimensional analysis of the problem by the finite element method.

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