An isogeometric boundary element formulation for stress concentration problems in couple stress elasticity

Boundary Element Method for Elasticity Problems

Another general numerical method has recently emerged that provides good computational abilities and has some particular advantages when compared to FEM. The technique known as the boundary element method (BEM) has been widely used by computational mechanics investigators leading to the development of many private and commercial codes. Similar to the finite element method, BEM can analyze many ...

ON MAXWELL'S STRESS FUNCTIONS FOR SOLVING THREE DIMENSIONAL ELASTICITY PROBLEMS IN THE THEORY OF ELASTICITY

The governing equations of three dimensional elasticity problems include the six Beltrami-Michell stress compatibility equations, the three differential equations of equilibrium, and the six material constitutive relations; and these are usually solved subject to the boundary conditions. The system of fifteen differential equations is usually difficult to solve, and simplified methods are usual...

A General Boundary Element Formulation for The Analysis of Viscoelastic Problems

The analysis of viscoelastic materials is one of the most important subjects in engineering structures. Several works have been so far made for the integral equation methods to viscoelastic problems. From the basic assumptions of viscoelastic constitutive equations and weighted residual techniques, a simple but effective Boundary Element (BE) formulation is developed for the Kelvin viscoelastic...

Mixed finite elements for elasticity in the stress-displacement formulation

We present a family of pairs of finite element spaces for the unaltered Hellinger–Reissner variational principle using polynomial shape functions on a single triangular mesh for stress and displacement. There is a member of the family for each polynomial degree, beginning with degree two for the stress and degree one for the displacement, and each is stable and affords optimal order approximati...

An ’a Priori’ Model Reduction for Isogeometric Boundary Element Method