E. J. Sellountos1, A. Sequeira1, D. Polyzos2
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.57, No.2, pp. 109-136, 2010, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2010.057.109
Abstract A new Local Boundary Integral Equation (LBIE) method is proposed for the solution of plane elastostatic problems. Non-uniformly distributed points taken from a Finite Element Method (FEM) mesh cover the analyzed domain and form background cells with more than four points each. The FEM mesh determines the position of the points without imposing any connectivity requirement. The key-point of the proposed methodology is that the support domain of each point is divided into parts according to the background cells. An efficient Radial Basis Functions (RBF) interpolation scheme is exploited for the representation of displacements in More >