Boundary Element Analysis of Three-Dimensional Exponentially Graded Isotropic Elastic Solids

A numerical implementation of the Somigliana identity in displacements for the solution of 3D elastic problems in exponentially graded isotropic solids is presented. An expression for the fundamental solution in displacements, Uj , was deduced by Martin et al. (Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A, 458, pp. 1931–1...

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Autores: Criado, R., Ortiz Tavara, Jhonny Edgar, Mantic, Vladislav, Gray, L. J., París Carballo, Federico
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/72025
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/72025
https://doi.org/10.3970/cmes.2007.022.151
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Functionally graded materials
Boundary element method
Three-dimensional elasticity
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Sumario:A numerical implementation of the Somigliana identity in displacements for the solution of 3D elastic problems in exponentially graded isotropic solids is presented. An expression for the fundamental solution in displacements, Uj , was deduced by Martin et al. (Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A, 458, pp. 1931–1947, 2002). This expression was recently corrected and implemented in a Galerkin indirect 3D BEM code by Criado et al. (Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng., 2008). Starting from this expression of Uj , a new expression for the fundamental solution in tractions Tj has been deduced in the present work. These quite complex expressions of the integral kernels Uj and Tj have been implemented in a collocational direct 3D BEM code. The numerical results obtained for 3D problems with known analytic solutions verify that the new expression for Tj is correct. Excellent accuracy is obtained with very coarse boundary element meshes, even for a relatively