Free vibration of structures by radial basis function – pseudospectral method

The paper deals with the use of the radial basis function-pseudospectral method in vibration analysis of twodimensional mechanical structures. The method combines meshless features of radial basis function (RBF) with efficiency and simplicity of the pseudospectral method. In present work the main emphasis is laid on appropriate assumption of the interpolant for the sought function due to the number of the boundary conditions in analysed problem. This interpolation function enables to obtain the weighting coefficients for derivative approximation in a governing equation. The method is applied to free vibration analysis of arbitrarily shaped membrane and plate.