MESHFREE GALERKIN KRIGING MODEL FOR BENDING AND BUCKLING ANALYSIS OF SIMPLY SUPPORTED LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATES

Further development of the novel meshfree Galerkin Kriging method for bending and buckling analysis of laminated composite plates is the main objective of the present work. The present formulation follows the classical plate theory while the discrete equations are derived from the standard Galerkin weak form. The moving Kriging interpolation technique is used for constructing shape functions, which possess the delta property and thus no special techniques are required for imposing the essential boundary conditions. Various numerical examples with different geometries of plates for both bending and buckling analysis are solved to demonstrate the applicability and the effectiveness of the present approach. The calculated results are compared with reference solutions available in the literature and very good agreements are obtained. It obviously illustrates that the proposed method can be considered as an alternative numerical approach for buckling and bending of laminated plates.