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In this article, a meshless local Petrov—Galerkin (MLPG) approach is developed for three-dimensional (3D) analysis of thick plates. Two different MLPG methods including MLPG1 and MLPG5 are employed to solve the elasto-static problems of thick plates. In MLPG1, a namely fourth-order spline function is considered as test function, while the Heaviside step function is employed as test function in MLPG5. Considering 3D equilibrium equations, the local symmetric weak forms are derived. The moving least-squares approximation is used to interpolate the solution variables and the penalty method is applied to impose the essential boundary conditions. In the present study, brick-shaped domains are chosen as local subdomains and support domains. The integrals appearing in the weak formulation are easily evaluated over brick-shaped subdomains and their boundaries. Considering the present approach, elasto-static deformations and stresses are analysed for thick rectangular plates with various boundary conditions and different aspect ratios. Excellent agreement is seen comparing the present results with the known analytical and numerical solutions in the literature.

In the present study, a completely meshless analysis of two-dimensional cracks in non-homogeneous, isotropic, and linear elastic functionally graded materials (FGMs) is developed. The meshless local Petrov—Galerkin method is applied and the equilibrium equations are considered to drive the local symmetric weak formulations. The moving least-squares approximation is used to interpolate the solution variables and the penalty method is applied to impose the essential boundary conditions. Also, a new technique for defining local sub-domain and support domain is proposed. Using the technique, more nodes are considered in the direction of material variation and extra nodes are located near the crack tip of the FGM body to obtain an accurate meshless model. The based functions are also enriched in order to capture singularities around the crack tip. Several numerical examples containing both mode-I and mixed-mode conditions are presented and the results are compared with the available solutions in the literature which shows a good agreement.

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