Advances in Meshfree Techniques

Preface; A Global-Local Approach for the Construction of Enrichment Functions for the Generalized HIM and Its Application to Three-Dimensional Cracks, by C. Armando Duarte, Dae-Jin Kim and Ivo Babusca; Study of Some Optimal XFEM Type Methods, by Elie Chahine, Patrick Laborde, Julien Pommier Yves Renard and Michel Salaun, by Generalized Finite Element Method in Mixed Variational Formulation: A Study of Convergence and Solvability, by W. Gois and S.P.B. Proenca; Stability in Lagrangian and Semi-Lagrangian Reproducing Kernel Discretizations Using Nodal Integration in Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, by Jiun-Shyan Chen and Youcai Wu; Simulation of Forming Processes by the cr-Shapes-Based Natural Element Method, by I. Alfaro, E. Cueto, F Chinesta and M. Doblare; New Advances in Meshless Methods: Coupling Natural Element and Moving Least Squares Techniques, by F Chinesta, J. Yvonnet, P. Villon, P Breitkopf P Joyot, I. Alfaro and E. Cueto; Eliminating Shear-Locking in Meshless Methods: A Critical Overview and a New Framework for Structural Theories, by Carlos Tiago and Vitor MA. Leitao; FEMJSPH Coupling Techniques for High Velocity Impact Simulations, by Levent Aktay and Alastair F Johnson; On the Construction of Mass Conservative and Meshless Adaptive Particle Advection Methods, by Armin Iske; Spectral-Like Accuracy in Space of a Meshless Vortex Method, by LA. Barba; A Hybrid Meshless/Spectral-Element Method for the Shallow Water Equations on the Sphere, by Christopher D. Blakely; Iterated Approximate Moving Least Squares Approximation,by Gregory E. Fasshauer and Jack G. Zhang; A Kansa Type Method Using Fundamental Solutions Applied to Elliptic PDEs, by Carlos J.S. Alves and Svilen S. Valtchev; From Global to Local Radial Basis Function Collocation Method for Transport Phenomena, by Bozidar Sarler; Computation of Static Deformations and Natural Frequencies of Shear Deformable Plates by an RBF-Pseudospectral Method with an Optimal Shape Parameter, by A.J.M. Ferreira and G.E. Fasshauer; Author Index; Subject Index.