@Article{cmes.2003.004.161,
AUTHOR = {L. F.  Qian, R. C.  Batra, L. M.  Chen},
TITLE = {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},
JOURNAL = {Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences},
VOLUME = {4},
YEAR = {2003},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {161--176},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CMES/v4n1/24807},
ISSN = {1526-1506},
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.},
DOI = {10.3970/cmes.2003.004.161}
}