Application of dual reciprocity method to plates and shells

In this paper the dual reciprocity method is developed to transform domain integrals to boundary integrals for shear de-formable plate and shell bendi ng formulation. The force term is approximated by a set of radial basis fun ctions. To transform the domain integrals to boundary integrals using the d ual reciprocity method, particular solutions are employed for three radial basis functions. Three examples are presented to demonstrate the accuracy o f this method. The numerical results obtained by using different particular solutions are compared with exact and FEM solutions. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.