Various boundary element method (BEM) based approaches to solve crack problems are
discussed. The displacement method, J-integral method and the modified crack closure …

The past twenty five years have shown in many ways that the BIE formulation and its BEM
implementation provide important contributions in two and three dimensional fracture …

An efficient dual boundary element technique for the analysis of a two‐dimensional finite
body with multiple cracks is established. In addition to the displacement integral equation …

This paper presents a new boundary integral formulation for a plane elastic body containing
an arbitrary number of cracks and holes. The body is assumed to be linear elastic and …

By combining the fundamental solutions, the method of boundary element and the technique
of subregion, the problems of multi-holes, cracks and inclusions are solved efficiently and …

Complex variable method is used to obtain the fundamental solutions, which are expressed
in terms of the complex potentials, for an infinite anisotropic plate containing an elliptical …

In this paper, we present a meshless method of fundamental solutions using the analytical
crack Green's function to solve anti-plane crack problems. The proposed scheme is a …

The Erdogan fundamental solutions are derived from an infinite plane containing a crack.
When they are used in the formulation of the boundary element method (BEM), the stress …

An integral equation approach is presented to investigate the interaction between cracks
and rigid-line inclusions embedded in an infinite isotropic elastic matrix subject to remote …

The numerical construction of a Green's function for multiple interacting planar cracks in an
anisotropic elastic space is considered. The numerical Green's function can be used to …