dual boundary element method applied to antiplane crack problems双边界元法应用于反平面裂纹问题.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2009, Article ID 132980, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2009/132980 Research Article Dual Boundary Element Method Applied to Antiplane Crack Problems Wei-Liang Wu Department of Mathematics Computer Science Education, Taipei Municipal University of Education, Taipei 10048, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Wei-Liang Wu, ozweiliang@.tw Received 23 February 2009; Revised 7 July 2009; Accepted 3 August 2009 Recommended by Angelo Luongo This paper is concerned with an efficient dual boundary element method for 2d crack problems under antiplane shear loading. The dual equations are the displacement and the traction boundary integral equations. When the displacement equation is applied on the outer boundary and the traction equation on one of the crack surfaces, general crack problems with anti-plane shear loading can be solved with a single region formulation. The outer boundary is discretised with continuous quadratic elements; however, only one of the crack surfaces needs to be discretised with discontinuous quadratic elements. Highly accurate results are obtained, when the stress intensity factor is evaluated with the discontinuous quarter point element method. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the present formulation. Copyright q 2009 Wei-Liang Wu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction The problem of a cracked body subjected to an antiplane shear loading had been studied extensively. Sih 1 provided analytical solution