A boundary element method for modelling cracks along material interfaces in transient dynamics

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 355-365

  Tabatabai Stocker, B ^a   Beer, G ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Crack propagation; Interaction of the crack sides; Time domain formulation; Transient dynamics

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

TRANSIENT DYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032052455     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199804)14:4<355::AID-CNM154>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. J. Dominguez, Boundary Elements in Dynamics, Computational Mechanics Publications, 1993.
2. P. Fedelinski, M. Aliabadi and D. Rooke, 'The time-domain DBEM for rapidly growing cracks', Int. j. numer. methods eng., 40, 1555-1572 (1997).
3. R. Gallego and J. Dominguez, 'Dynamic crack propagation analysis by moving singular boundary elements', Trans. ASME, 59, 158-162 (1992).
4. O. Pekau and V. Batta, 'Seismic crack propagation analysis of concrete structures using boundary elements', Int. j. numer. methods eng., 35, 1547-1564 (1992).
5. R. Abascal, '2D transient dynamic friction contact problems I, II', Eng. Anal. Bound. Elem., 16, 227-243 (1995).
6. H. Antes and B. Steinfeld, 'Unilateral contact with friction by a time domain BEM', in Non-linear Computational Mechanics, P. Wriggers and W. Wagner (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 193-211, 1991, Berlin.
7. D. E. Bescos, 'Boundary element methods in dynamic analysis: Part II (1986-1996)', Appl. Mech. Rev., 50(3), 149-197 (1997).
8. A. B. Chaudhary and K.-J. Bathe, 'A solution method for static and dynamic analysis of three-dimensional contact problems with friction', Comput. Struct., 24, 855-873 (1986).
9. E. Zolti, 'A finite element procedure to time dependent contact analysis', Comput. Struct., 17, 555-561 (1983).
10. G. Beer, 'An efficient numerical method for modelling initiation and propagation of cracks along material interfaces', Int. j. numer. methods eng., 36, 3579-3594 (1993).
11. S. Ahmad, 'Linear and nonlinear dynamic analysis by BEM', Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1986.
12. P. K. Banerjee, A. S. Israil and H. C. Wang, 'Time-domain formulations of BEM for two-dimensional, axisymmetric and three-dimensional transient elastodynamics', in Advanced Dyn. Anal. by BEM, P. K. Banerjee and S. Kobayashi (Eds.), Elsevier, 1992.
13. G. Manolis and D. Beskos, Boundary Element Methods in Elastodynamics, Allen and Unwin, 1988.