Free vibration analysis of moderately thick functionally graded plates by local Kriging meshless method

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Natural frequencies of sandwich plates with FGM core via variable-kinematic 2-D Ritz models (2013, unknown): “, [14–21]).”
Free vibration analysis of functionally graded carbon nanotube-reinforced composite plates using the element-free kp-Ritz method in thermal environment (2013, background): “Krysl and Belytschko applied the element-free Galerkin method for analyses of thin plates and shells [35,36] and Liew et al. employed it to analyze the pseudoelastic behavior of a SMA beam [37] and buckling behaviors of corrugated plates [38].”
Functionally graded material: an overview (2012, background): “A number of researches have also been conducted in the areas of analysis and modeling work on functionally graded material; some of these work can be found in [59-67].”
Thermal buckling of functionally graded plates using a local Kriging meshless method (2014, methodology): “Consequently, the Kriging-based shape functions can be established and the estimator at any point can be rewritten as ûðx;xiÞ 1⁄4 wðx;xiÞu [42], where u 1⁄4 1⁄2uðx1Þ uðx2Þ uðxnÞ T collects values of n nodes distributed in a support domain Xs, and w(x, xi) is thus defined as the Kriging-based shape f”
Stress, vibration and buckling analyses of FGM plates—A state-of-the-art review (2015, methodology): “A local Kriging meshless technique was employed by Zhu and Liew [260] to construct shape functions which possess Kronecker delta function property.”