free vibration of sandwich plates with temperature dependent functionally graded (fg) face sheets in various thermal environments is investigated. the material properties of fg face sheets are assumed to be temperature-dependent and vary continuously through the thickness according to a power-law distribution in terms of the volume fractions of the constituents. also, the material properties of...

The diffuse element method developed by Nayroles et al. is a new way for solving partial differential equations. In this method, only a mesh of nodes and a boundary description is needed to develop the Galerkin equations. The approximating functions are polynomials fitted to the nodal values of each local domain by a weighted least squares approximation. Belytschko et al. developed an alternati...

A meshless approach to the analysis of arbitrary Kirchhoff plates by the Element-Free Galerkin (EFG) method is presented. The method is based on moving least squares approximant. The method is meshless, which means that the discretization is independent of the geometric subdivision into “finite elements”. The satisfaction of the C1 continuity requirements are easily met by EFG since it requires...

We investigate a macro-element variant of the hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method, using patches standard simplicial elements that can have non-matching interfaces. Coupled via HDG technique, our method enables local refinement by uniform subdivision each macro-element. By enforcing one spatial discretization for all macro-elements, we arrive at problems per are embarrassingly parall...

Abstract. A C0-weak Galerkin (WG) method is introduced and analyzed for solving the biharmonic equation in 2D and 3D. A weak Laplacian is defined for C0 functions in the new weak formulation. This WG finite element formulation is symmetric, positive definite and parameter free. Optimal order error estimates are established in both a discrete H2 norm and the L2 norm, for the weak Galerkin finite...