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 …

Cracked ductile structures yield locally to form a plastic zone (pz) around their crack tips,
which size and shape controls their structural behaviour. Classical pz estimates are based …

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 …

As classically proposed in the technical literature, the boundary element modeling of cracks
is best carried out by resorting to a hypersingular fundamental solution–in the frame of the …

The hybrid stress boundary element method (HSBEM) was introduced in 1987 on the basis
of the Hellinger-Reissner potential, as a generalization of Pian's hybrid finite element …

This study presents a novel development of a new semi‐analytical method with diagonal
coefficient matrices to model crack issues. Accurate stress intensity factors based on linear …

In this paper, special-purpose elements are developed for solving local effects caused by
discontinuous loads such as concentrated forces, line loads and patch loads applied in …

The paper presents an attempt to consolidate a formulation for the general analysis of the
dynamic response of elastic systems. Based on the mode-superposition method, a set of …

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 …

In this article, the boundary element method is implemented for solving linear elastic fracture
mechanics problems, using new complex Fourier shape functions which include constant …