Trefftz boundary element method for domains with slits

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 299-304

  Portela, A ^a   Charafi, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary elements; Cracks; Slits; Trefftz

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRACKS; GEOMETRY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DOMAINS; SLITS; TREFFTZ;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031368419     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0955-7997(97)00047-7     Document Type: Article

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