Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, a workshop on the boundary element
method (BEM) was held on the campus of the University of Akron during September 1–3 …

Symmetric Galerkin Boundary Element Method presents an introduction as well as recent
developments of this accurate, powerful, and versatile method. The formulation possesses …

The collocation boundary element method, as developed and taught in the traditional books,
suffers from severe inconsistencies, partly responsible for the method's lack of clarity and …

The paper examines the in-plane loading of a bonded rigid disc inclusion of finite thickness
that is embedded at a smooth pre-compressed elastic interface composed of two halfspace …

A particular implementation of the hybrid boundary element method is presented for the two-
dimensional analysis of potential and elasticity problems, which, although general in …

Based on the theory of elasticity, the electrostatic behavior of functionally graded
piezoelectric cantilevers is studied where the nonlinear profile of the piezoelectric parameter …

The present developments result from the combination of the variationally-based, hybrid
boundary element method and a consistent formulation of the conventional, collocation …

In the traditional boundary element methods, the numerical modelling of cracks is usually
carried out by means of a hypersingular fundamental solution, which involves a 1/r 2 kernel …

The present developments rely on a consistent formulation of the conventional, collocation
boundary element method with the aim to establish a computationally less intensive …

This paper proposes the application to two-dimensional time-dependent problems of a
boundary element code that carries out all numerical integrations highly accurately and is …