A Simple Galerkin Meshless Method, the Fragile Points Method (FPM) Using Point Stiffness Matrices, for 2D Linear Elastic Problems in Complex Domains with Crack and Rupture Propagation

Tian Yang, Leiting Dong, Satya N. Atluri

The Fragile Points Method (FPM) is an elementarily simple Galerkin meshless method, employing Point-based discontinuous trial and test functions only, without using element-based t…