A New Boundary Element Method Formulation for Linear Elasticity

1986 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Ghosh ◽  
H. Rajiyah ◽  
S. Ghosh ◽  
S. Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
Boundary Element ◽  
Linear Elasticity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Element Formulation ◽  
Standard Formulation ◽  
Field Point ◽  
Elasticity Problems ◽  
Method Formulation ◽  
New Formulation

A new boundary element formulation for linear elasticity problems is presented in this paper. The standard formulation for planar problems uses two kernels — one of which is logarithmic singular and the other is 1/r singular, where r is the distance between a source and a field point. The new formulation avoids the use of the strongly singular kernel so that both kernels are now only logarithmic singular. The new formulation has several potential advantages over the standard one, the most significant of which is that it delivers stresses accurately at internal points which are extremely close to the boundary of a body. Numerical results for sample problems, from each of the formulations, are presented and compared here.

The Boundary Contour Method for Three-Dimensional Linear Elasticity

1996 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nagarajan ◽  
S. Mukherjee ◽  
E. Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
Boundary Element ◽  
Linear Elasticity ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Contour Method ◽  
Boundary Contour ◽  
Boundary Contour Method ◽  
Novel Variant ◽  
Elasticity Problems ◽  
Element Method

This paper presents a novel variant of the boundary element method, here called the boundary contour method, applied to three-dimensional problems of linear elasticity. In this work, the surface integrals on boundary elements of the usual boundary element method are transformed, through an application of Stokes’ theorem, into line integrals on the bounding contours of these elements. Thus, in this formulation, only line integrals have to be numerically evaluated for three-dimensional elasticity problems—even for curved surface elements of arbitrary shape. Numerical results are presented for some three-dimensional problems, and these are compared against analytical solutions.

Reduced-Order Modeling of Unsteady Flows About Complex Configurations Using the Boundary Element Method

2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 988-993 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Esfahanian ◽  
M. Behbahani-nejad
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
Boundary Element ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Unsteady Flows ◽  
Reduced Order Modeling ◽  
Element Formulation ◽  
Reduced Order Models ◽  
Reduced Order ◽  
Naca 0012 ◽  
Element Method

An approach to developing a general technique for constructing reduced-order models of unsteady flows about three-dimensional complex geometries is presented. The boundary element method along with the potential flow is used to analyze unsteady flows over two-dimensional airfoils, three-dimensional wings, and wing-body configurations. Eigenanalysis of unsteady flows over a NACA 0012 airfoil, a three-dimensional wing with the NACA 0012 section and a wing-body configuration is performed in time domain based on the unsteady boundary element formulation. Reduced-order models are constructed with and without the static correction. The numerical results demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the present method in reduced-order modeling of unsteady flows over complex configurations.

A Boundary Element Method for Multi-Body Contact Problems and its Application to the Analysis of a Huge Excavator

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong-De Liu ◽  
Jiyuan Yu ◽  
Xiaoming Wang
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
Boundary Element ◽  
Contact Problems ◽  
Fortran Program ◽  
Boundary Integral ◽  
Element Formulation ◽  
Body Contact ◽  
Boundary Integral Formulation ◽  
Discretization Technique ◽  
Multi Body

Abstract The derivation of a boundary integral formulation and discretization technique in terms of boundary elements for the solution of multi-body contact problems has been carried out. A FORTRAN program has been developed based on this boundary element formulation and has been applied to the stress analysis of a huge caterpillar excavator woth 16 m3 bucket capacity.

A Novel Boundary Element Method for Linear Elasticity With No Numerical Integration for Two-Dimensional and Line Integrals for Three-Dimensional Problems

1994 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nagarajan ◽  
E. Lutz ◽  
S. Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
Boundary Element ◽  
Numerical Integration ◽  
Linear Elasticity ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Contour Method ◽  
Surface Boundary ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Boundary Contour Method ◽  
Element Method

This paper presents a novel application of the boundary element method to solve problems in linear elasticity. The new method is called the Boundary Contour Method. This approach requires no numerical integration at all for two-dimensional problems and numerical evaluation of line integrals only for three-dimensional problems; even for curved line or surface boundary elements of arbitrary shape! Numerical results are presented for some two-dimensional problems.

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