Analysis by Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin Method of Material Discontinuities, Pull-in Instability in MEMS, Vibrations of Cracked Beams, and Finite Deformations of Rubberlike Materials

The Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method has been employed to analyze the following linear and nonlinear solid mechanics problems: free and forced vibrations of a segmented bar and a cracked beam, pull-in instability of an electrostatically actuated microbeam, and plane strain deformations o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porfiri, Maurizio
Other Authors: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27420
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04282006-102241/