Bearing Capacity Analysis Using Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin Method

Autor: Mužík Juraj
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 69-78 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1336-5835
DOI: 10.2478/cee-2014-0009
Popis: The paper deals with use of the meshless method for soil bearing capacity analysis. There are many formulations of the meshless methods. The article presents the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin method (MLPG) - local weak formulation of the equilibrium equations. The main difference between meshless methods and the conventional finite element method (FEM) is that meshless shape functions are constructed using randomly scattered set of points without any relation between points. The Heaviside step function is test function used in the meshless implementation presented in the article. Heaviside test function makes weak formulation integral very simple, because only body integral in governing equation is due a body force.
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