This document presents comprehensive historical accounts on the developments of finite
element methods (FEM) since 1941, with a specific emphasis on developments related to …

Research activities related to functionally graded materials (FGMs) have increased rapidly in
recent years. The superlative properties of carbon nanotubes, ie high strength, high stiffness …

In the past two decades, meshfree methods have emerged into a new class of computational
methods with considerable success. In addition, a significant amount of progress has been …

Since its inception, the full Lagrangian meshless smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH)
has experienced a tremendous enhancement in methodology and impacted a range of multi …

The smoothed finite element methods (S-FEM) are a family of methods formulated through
carefully designed combinations of the standard FEM and some of the techniques from the …

Understand How to Use and Develop Meshfree TechniquesAn Update of a Groundbreaking
WorkReflecting the significant advances made in the field since the publication of its …

Meshfree approximation methods are a relatively new area of research, and there are only a
few books covering it at present. Whereas other works focus almost entirely on theoretical …

A new approach for modelling discrete cracks in meshfree methods is described. In this
method, the crack can be arbitrarily oriented, but its growth is represented discretely by …

Drawing on the authors' extensive research results, this book presents the theoretical
framework and development of various S-FEM models. It discusses the overall modeling …

The aim of this manuscript is to give a practical overview of meshless methods (for solid
mechanics) based on global weak forms through a simple and well-structured MATLAB …