Y.C. Shiah1, C.L. Tan2,3, Li-Ding Chan1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.109-110, No.1, pp. 15-33, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2015.109.015
Abstract In the conventional boundary element method (BEM), the presence of singular kernels in the boundary integral equation or integral identities causes serious inaccuracy of the numerical solutions when the source and field points are very close to each other. This situation occurs commonly in elastostatic analysis of thin structures. The numerical inaccuracy issue can be resolved by some regularization process. Very recently, the self-regularization scheme originally proposed by Cruse and Richardson (1996) for 2D stress analysis has been extended and modified by He and Tan (2013) to 3D elastostatics analysis of isotropic bodies. This paper More >