Advances In Meshfree Techniques PDF Download

This book is a collection of the papers from the proceedings of the 1st Asian Workshop on Meshfree Methods held in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Structural Stability & Dynamics (ICSSD02) on 16-18 December 2002 in Singapore. It contains 36 articles covering most of the topics in the rapidly developing areas of meshfree methods and extended finite element methods (X-FEM). These topics include domain discretization, boundary discretization, combined domain/boundary discretization, meshfree particle methods, collocation methods, X-FEM, etc. Papers on issues related to implementation and coding of meshfree methods are also presented. The areas of applications of meshfree methods include solving general partial differential equations, the mechanics of solids and structures, smart material/structures, soil-structures, fracture mechanics, fluid dynamics, impact, penetration, micro-fluidics, etc. In addition, techniques for field variable interpolation, such as the moving least squares (MLS) approximation, the point interpolation method (PIM), and radial PIM are reported. Contents:Meshfree FormulationsMeshfree Methods for Smart Materials/StructuresMeshfree Methods for Fracture AnalysisMeshfree Methods for Membranes, Plates & ShellsMeshfree Methods for SoilMeshfree Methods for CFDBoundary Meshfree MethodsCoding, Error Estimation, ParallisationMeshfree Particle MethodsX-FEM Readership: Graduate and undergraduate students, researchers, academics, lecturers and engineers in civil engineering, engineering mechanics and mechanical engineering. Keywords:Meshfree Method;Meshless Method;SPH;X-FEM;Computational Mechanics;Computational Science;Fluid Dynamics;Modified Variational Principle;Smart Materials