Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING
Volume 78, Issue 13, Pages 1532-1552Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2535
Keywords
limit analysis; EFG method; nodal integration; second-order cone programming
Funding
- EPSRC [GR/S53329/01]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/S53329/01] Funding Source: researchfish
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The meshless element-free Galerkin (EFG) method is extended to allow computation of the limit load of plates. A kinematic formulation that involves approximating the displacement field using the moving least-squares technique is developed. Only one displacement variable is required for each EFG node, ensuring that the total number of variables in the resulting optimization problem is kept to a minimum, with far fewer variables being required compared with finite element formulations using compatible elements. A stabilized conforming nodal integration scheme is extended to plastic plate bending problems. The evaluation of integrals at nodal points using curvature smoothing stabilization both keeps the size of the optimization problem small and also results in stable and accurate solutions. Difficulties imposing essential boundary conditions are overcome by enforcing displacements at the nodes directly. The formulation can be expressed as the problem of minimizing a sum of Euclidean norms subject to a set of equality constraints. This non-smooth minimization problem can be transformed into a form suitable for solution using second-order cone programming. The procedure is applied to several benchmark beam and plate problems and is found in practice to generate good upper-bound solutions for benchmark problems. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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