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Meshless equilibrium on line method (MELM) for linear elasticity

  • Sadeghirad, A. (School of Civil Engineering, University of Tehran) ;
  • Mohammadi, S. (School of Civil Engineering, University of Tehran) ;
  • Kani, I. Mahmoudzadeh (School of Civil Engineering, University of Tehran)
  • Received : 2007.07.02
  • Accepted : 2010.02.19
  • Published : 2010.07.10
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Abstract

As a truly meshfree method, meshless equilibrium on line method (MELM), for 2D elasticity problems is presented. In MELM, the problem domain is represented by a set of distributed nodes, and equilibrium is satisfied on lines for any node within this domain. In contrary to conventional meshfree methods, test domains are lines in this method, and all integrals can be easily evaluated over straight lines along x and y directions. Proposed weak formulation has the same concept as the equilibrium on line method which was previously used by the authors for enforcement of the Neumann boundary conditions in the strong-form meshless methods. In this paper, the idea of the equilibrium on line method is developed to use as the weak forms of the governing equations at inner nodes of the problem domain. The moving least squares (MLS) approximation is used to interpolate solution variables in this paper. Numerical studies have shown that this method is simple to implement, while leading to accurate results.

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