A 3D shell-like approach using element-free Galerkin method for analysis of thin and thick plate structures

A new efficient meshless method based on the element-free Galerkin method is proposed to analyze the static deformation of thin and thick plate structures in this paper. Using the new 3D shell-like kinematics in analogy to the solid-shell concept of the finite element method, discretization is carried out by the nodes located on the upper and lower surfaces of the structures. The approximation of all unknown field variables is carried out by using the moving least squares （MLS） approximation scheme in the in-plane directions, while the linear interpolation is applied through the thickness direction. Thus, different boundary conditions are defined only using displacements and penalty method is used to enforce the essential boundary conditions. The constrained Galerkin weak form, which incorporates only dis- placement degrees of freedom （d.o.f.s）, is derived. A modified 3D constitutive relationship is adopted in order to avoid or eliminate some self-locking effects. The numeric efficiency of the proposed meshless formulation is illustrated by the numeric examples.

ANALYSIS OF 2-D THIN STRUCTURES BY THE MESHLESS REGULAR HYBRID BOUNDARY NODE METHOD

Thin structures are generally solved by the Finite Element Method(FEM), using plate or shell finite elements which have manylimitations in applications, such as numerical locking, edge effects,length scaling and the cnvergence problem. Recently, by proposing anew approach to tranting the nearly- singular integrals, Liu et al.developed a BEM to successfully solve thin structures with thethickness-to- length ratios in the micro-or nano-scales. On the otherhand, the meshless Regular Hybrid Boundary Node Method (RHBNM), whichis proposed by the current authors and based on a modified functionaland the Moving Least-Square (MLS) approximation, has very promisingapplications for engineering problems owing To its meshless natureand dimension-reduction advantage, and not involving any singular ornearly-singular Integrals. Test examples show that the RHBNM can alsobe applied readily to thin structures with high accu- Racy withoutany modification.

Meshless analysis of an improved element-free Galerkin method for linear and nonlinear elliptic problems

We first give a stabilized improved moving least squares （IMLS） approximation, which has better computational stability and precision than the IMLS approximation. Then, analysis of the improved element-free Galerkin method is provided theoretically for both linear and nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems. Finally, numerical examples are given to verify the theoretical analysis.

Singular and Regular Implementations of the Hybrid Boundary Node Method

The hybrid boundary node method （HdBNM） combines a modified function with the moving least squares approximation to form a boundary-only truly meshless method. This paper describes two implementations of the HdBNM, the singular hybrid boundary node method （ShBNM） and the regular hybrid boundary node method （RhBNM）. The ShBNM and RhBNM were compared with each other, and the parameters that influence their performance were studied in detail. The convergence rates and their applicability to thin structures were also investigated. The ShBNM and RhBNM are found to be very easy to implement and to efficiently obtain numerical solutions to computational mechanics problems.

An improve d smoothe d particle hydrodynamics approach using new inverse kernel function

The main limitation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics(SPH)method that resists the method’s poten-tial is its lack of providing stability and accuracy to the numerical technique.We improve the accuracy of the standard SPH technique,by formulating a new inverse logarithmic kernel function.This new kernel function is derived based on the underlying properties of kernel functions.The approximation technique used here is based on the Moving Least Squares based technique.The adequacy of the proposed ker-nel function is tested by simulation of 2D shock wave propagation and 3D dam-break free surface flow against a cuboidal obstacle.The method was validated against experimental data by Kleefsman et al.,[1].The numerical results reveal that our new SPH approach using inverse logarithmic kernel function outper-forms existing ones in particle restoration,zero error,better accuracy and enhanced efficiency in kernel approximation.This new kernel function showed some improvement over existing kernels by showing very less error approximation value of 0.035h 2.The results showed some improvements over standard technique by being capable of handling problems with large deformations accurately and precisely.