MESHFREE CELL-BASED SMOOTHED POINT INTERPOLATION METHOD USING ISOPARAMETRIC PIM SHAPE FUNCTIONS AND CONDENSED RPIM SHAPE FUNCTIONS

This paper presents two novel and effective cell-based smoothed point interpolation methods (CS-PIM) using isoparametric PIM (PIM-Iso) shape functions and condensed radial PIM (RPIM-Cd) shape functions respectively. These two types of PIM shape functions can successfully overcome the singularity problem occurred in the process of creating PIM shape functions and make the constructed CS-PIM models work well with the three-node triangular meshes. Smoothed strains are obtained by performing the generalized gradient smoothing operation over each triangular background cells, because the nodal PIM shape functions can be discontinuous. The generalized smoothed Galerkin (GS-Galerkin) weakform is used to create the discretized system equations. Some numerical examples are studied to examine various properties of the present methods in terms of accuracy, convergence, and computational efficiency.