An adaptive XIGA with locally refined NURBS for modeling cracked composite FG Mindlin–Reissner plates

This paper is devoted to numerical investigations on mechanical behavior of cracked composite functionally graded (FG) plates. We thus develop an efficient adaptive approach in terms of the extended isogeometric analysis (XIGA) enhanced by locally refined non-uniform rational B-spline (LR NURBS) for natural frequency and buckling analysis of cracked FG Mindlin–Reissner plates. In this setting, the crack geometries, which are described by the...