Xiaolin Li1, Jialin Zhu2
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.45, No.1, pp. 1-30, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.045.001
Abstract In this paper, a Galerkin boundary node method (GBNM) is developed for boundary-only analysis of 2D problems in linear elasticity. The GBNM combines the variational form of a boundary integral formulation for the elastic equations with the moving least-squares approximations for generating the trial and test functions. Unlike the boundary node method, the main idea here is to use the Galerkin scheme for numerical analysis, thus boundary conditions in the GBNM can be satisfied easily and directly in the weak formulation of the boundary integral equation. Another advantage with the Galerkin scheme is that the More >