A MLPG Formulation for Plane Stress Problems

Resumo

This paper presents an analysis of plane stress problems using the first variant of the Meshless Local

Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method designed in the literature by MLPG-1. In this method, the Moving Least-
Squares (MLS) is used as approximation function, and an integration scheme is proposed for avoiding the

numerical errors associated to the points of integration located outside of the global domain of interesting. An
example is presented in order to assess the accuracy and the stability of the proposed formulation by comparing
its numerical model with a reference model based on the Boundary Element Method (BEM) formulation.