M. G. He1, C.L. Tan1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.95, No.4, pp. 317-349, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2013.095.315
Abstract The self-regularization technique in the Boundary Element Method (BEM) originally proposed by Cruse and Richardson (1996, 1999) in their work for two-dimensional (2-D) stress analysis is extended to three-dimensional (3-D) elastostatics in this paper. The regularization scheme addresses the issue of accurate numerical evaluation of the integrals due to the singularity of the kernel functions of the integral equations. It is first implemented for the determination of displacements and stresses at interior points of the solution domain, and very accurate results are obtained even when these points are very close to the surface of the More >