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ABSTRACT

Boundary Point Method applied for calculating elastic strain and stress in bodies with cracks

J. Bernal¹, S. Kanaun², V. Romero¹

1 Universidad del Caribe. Dpto. De Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería.
2 Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey , CEM.

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences 2007, 3(4), 189-194. https://doi.org/10.3970/icces.2007.003.189

Abstract

A new numerical method for the solution of integral equations of the theory of elasticity for bodies with cracks is developed. The method is based on a class of Gaussian approximating functions that simplify essentially the construction of the final matrix of the linear algebraic system of the discretized problem. The results of the application of the method to some plane problems of elasticity were compared with the exact solutions and some other numerical solutions that exist in literature.

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