• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.1605-1612
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• 2001

Least-squares meshfree method is presented. Conventional meshfree methods based on the Galerkin formulation suffer from inaccurate numerical integration. Least-squares formulation exhibits rather different integration-related characteristics. It is demonstrated through numerical examples that least-squares formulation is much more robust to integration errors than the Galerkin's. Therefore efficient meshfree methods can be devised by combining very simple integration algorithms and least-squares formulation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.128-144
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• 1998

The BEM for linear elastic stress analysis is applied to the highly rotating axisymmetric body problem which also involves the thermoelastic effects due to steady-state thermal conduction. The axisymmetric BEM formulation is briefly summarized and an alternative approach for transforming the volume integrals associated with such body force kernels into equivalent boundary integrals is described in a way of using the concept of inner product and vector identity. A discretization scheme for higher order BE is outlined for numerical treatment of the resulting boundary integral equations, and it is consequently illustrated by determining the stress distributions of the turbine rotor disk of the small turbojet engine(ADD 500) for which a FEM stress solution has been furnished by author.