APPLICATION OF MESH-LESS METHOD IN ANALYSIS OF ELASTIC-PLASTIC STABILITY OF AN EDGE SLOPE

The element-free Galerkin method(EFGM) is applied to solve the elastic-viscoplastic problems in this paper. The corresponding computational program is written and applied to the elastic-plastic stability analysis of the edge slope. The comparisons and analyses of the numerical results of EFGM and FEM show that EFGM for elastic-viscoplastic problems is effective with good computational stability and convergence.