Analysis of Clamped Plates on Elastic Foundation by the Boundary Integral Equation Method

1984 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 574-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. Katsikadelis ◽  
A. E. Armena`kas

In this investigation the boundary integral equation (BIE) method with numerical evaluation of the boundary integral equations is developed for analyzing clamped plates of any shape resting on an elastic foundation. A numerical technique for the solution to the boundary integral equations is presented and numerical results are obtained and compared with those existing from analytical solutions. The effectiveness of the BIE method is demonstrated.

2012 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuki Kame ◽  
Tetsuya Kusakabe

The boundary integral equation method (BIEM) has been applied to the analysis of rupture propagation of nonplanar faults in an unbounded homogeneous elastic medium. Here, we propose an extended BIEM (XBIEM) that is applicable in an inhomogeneous bounded medium consisting of homogeneous sub-regions. In the formulation of the XBIEM, the interfaces of the sub-regions are regarded as extended boundaries upon which boundary integral equations are additionally derived. This has been originally known as a multiregion approach in the analysis of seismic wave propagation in the frequency domain and it is employed here for rupture dynamics interacting with medium interfaces in time domain. All of the boundary integral equations are fully coupled by imposing boundary conditions on the extended boundaries and then numerically solved after spatiotemporal discretization. This paper gives the explicit expressions of discretized stress kernels for anti-plane nonplanar problems and the numerical method for the implementation of the XBIEM, which are validated in two representative planar fault problems.


2017 ◽  
Vol 743 ◽  
pp. 158-161
Author(s):  
Andrey Petrov ◽  
Sergey Aizikovich ◽  
Leonid A. Igumnov

Problems of wave propagation in poroelastic bodies and media are considered. The behavior of the poroelastic medium is described by Biot theory for partially saturated material. Mathematical model is written in term of five basic functions – elastic skeleton displacements, pore water pressure and pore air pressure. Boundary element method (BEM) is used with step method of numerical inversion of Laplace transform to obtain the solution. Research is based on direct boundary integral equation of three-dimensional isotropic linear theory of poroelasticity. Green’s matrices and, based on it, boundary integral equations are written for basic differential equations in partial derivatives. Discrete analogue are obtained by applying the collocation method to a regularized boundary integral equation. To approximate the boundary consider its decomposition to a set of quadrangular and triangular 8-node biquadratic elements, where triangular elements are treated as singular quadrangular. Every element is mapped to a reference one. Interpolation nodes for boundary unknowns are a subset of geometrical boundary-element grid nodes. Local approximation follows the Goldshteyn’s generalized displacement-stress matched model: generalized boundary displacements are approximated by bilinear elements whereas generalized tractions are approximated by constant. Integrals in discretized boundary integral equations are calculated using Gaussian quadrature in combination with singularity decreasing and eliminating algorithms.


2006 ◽  
Vol 306-308 ◽  
pp. 465-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuang-Chong Wu

A novel integral equation method is developed in this paper for the analysis of two-dimensional general piezoelectric cracked bodies. In contrast to the conventional boundary integral methods based on reciprocal work theorem, the present method is derived from Stroh’s formalism for anisotropic elasticity in conjunction with Cauchy’s integral formula. The proposed boundary integral equations contain generalized boundary displacement (displacements and electric potential) gradients and generalized tractions (tractions and electric displacement) on the non-crack boundary, and the generalized dislocations on the crack lines. The boundary integral equations can be solved using Gaussian-type integration formulas without dividing the boundary into discrete elements. The crack-tip singularity is explicitly incorporated and the generalized intensity factors can be computed directly. Numerical examples of generalized stress intensity factors are given to illustrate the effectiveness and accuracy of the present method.


2021 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
A.A. Belov ◽  
A.N. Petrov

The application of non-classical approach of the boundary integral equation method in combination with the integral Laplace transform in time to anisotropic elastic wave modeling is considered. In contrast to the classical approach of the boundary integral equation method which is successfully implemented for solving three-dimensional isotropic problems of the dynamic theory of elasticity, viscoelasticity and poroelasticity, the alternative nonclassical formulation of the boundary integral equations method is presented that employs regular Fredholm integral equations of the first kind (integral equations on a plane wave). The construction of such boundary integral equations is based on the structure of the dynamic fundamental solution. The approach employs the explicit boundary integral equations. The inverse Laplace transform is constructed numerically by the Durbin method. A numerical solution of the dynamic problem of anisotropic elasticity theory based on the boundary integral equations method in a nonclassical formulation is presented. The boundary element scheme of the boundary integral equations method is built on the basis of a regular integral equation of the first kind. The problem is solved in anisotropic formulation for the load acting along the normal in the form of the Heaviside function on the cube face weakened by a cubic cavity. The obtained boundary element solutions are compared with finite element solutions. Numerical results prove the efficiency of using boundary integral equations on a single plane wave in solving three-dimensional anisotropic dynamic problems of elasticity theory. The convergence of boundary element solutions is studied on three schemes of surface discretization. The achieved calculation accuracy is not inferior to the accuracy of boundary element schemes for classical boundary integral equations. Boundary element analysis of solutions for a cube with and without a cavity is carried out.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif A. M. Yunus ◽  
Ali H. M. Murid ◽  
Mohamed M. S. Nasser

We present a boundary integral equation method for conformal mapping of unbounded multiply connected regions onto five types of canonical slit regions. For each canonical region, three linear boundary integral equations are constructed from a boundary relationship satisfied by an analytic function on an unbounded multiply connected region. The integral equations are uniquely solvable. The kernels involved in these integral equations are the modified Neumann kernels and the adjoint generalized Neumann kernels.


1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
C L Tan ◽  
Y L Gao ◽  
F F Afagh

Numerical methods for stress analysis are increasingly being employed in the micromechanics of solids. In this paper, the boundary integral equation (BIE) method for two-dimensional general anisotropic elasticity, based on the quadratic isoparametric element formulation, is extended to treating some inclusion problems. All the cases analysed involved an elliptical zirconia inclusion in an alumina matrix, noting that ZrO2–Al2O3 is an advanced ceramic increasingly used in structural applications. The BIE results are compared with those calculated using Eshelby's equivalent inclusion approach where possible, and excellent agreements between them are obtained. The present work demonstrates the suitability of using this numerical technique for analysing such problems and, in particular, the ease with which it may be used even in the case of general anisotropy.


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