A GFDM with supplementary nodes for thin elastic plate bending analysis under dynamic loading

Abstract

This work proposes a meshless generalized finite difference method (GFDM) with supplementary nodes for the solution of thin elastic plate bending under dynamic loading. The first- and second-order time derivatives in equilibrium equation are firstly discretized with the Houbolt method. The numerical solution of the resulting spatial problem at each time step is then calculated by the GFDM. The supplementary nodes on the boundary of the problem domain are introduced in the GFDM to yield the well-determined linear system of equations. Numerical example is provided to verify the accuracy and the stability of the developed approach, and these preliminary results reveal the potential of the method.