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Accepted Paper: A volume-averaged nodal projection method for the Reissner-Mindlin plate model

  • July 31, 2018
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Paper Accepted for Publication in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering A. Ortiz-Bernardin, Philip Köbrich, Jack S. Hale, Edgardo Olate-Sanzana, Stéphane P. A. Bordas, Sundararajan Natarajan, “A volume-averaged nodal projection method for the Reissner-Mindlin plate model.” ABSTRACT We introduce a novel meshfree Galerkin method for the solution of Reissner-Mindlin plate problems that is written in

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Maximum-Entropy Meshfree Method for Linear and Nonlinear Elasticity

  • May 19, 2015
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Doctoral Dissertation By Alejandro A. Ortiz Office of Graduate Studies, University of California, Davis, California March 2011 ABSTRACT A Galerkin-based maximum-entropy meshfree method for linear and nonlinear elastic media is developed. The standard displacement-based Galerkin formulation is used to model compressible linear elastic solids, whereas the classical u-p mixed formulation for near-incompressible linear elastic media

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Paper Accepted: Improved robustness for nearly-incompressible large deformation meshfree simulations on Delaunay tessellations

  • May 9, 2015
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Paper Accepted for Publication in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering A. Ortiz-Bernardin, M.A. Puso, N. Sukumar, “Improved robustness for nearly-incompressible large deformation meshfree simulations on Delaunay tessellations.” ABSTRACT A displacement-based Galerkin meshfree method for large deformation analysis of nearly-incompressible elastic solids is presented. Nodal discretization of the domain is defined by a Delaunay

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Improved robustness for nearly-incompressible large deformation meshfree simulations on Delaunay tessellations

  • May 9, 2015
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Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Vol. 293, pp. 348 – 374, 2015 A. Ortiz-Bernardin,  M.A. Puso and N. Sukumar Abstract A displacement-based Galerkin meshfree method for large deformation analysis of nearly-incompressible elastic solids is presented. Nodal discretization of the domain is defined by a Delaunay tessellation (three-node triangles and four-node tetrahedra), which is used to

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