ADVANCED TIME-DOMAIN FORMULATION OF BEM FOR 2-DIMENSIONAL TRANSIENT ELASTODYNAMICS

In this paper, a new formulation for two‐dimensional time‐domain transient elastodynamic analysis by the Boundary Element Method (BEM) is presented. The traction kernel is derived by using the causality of the waves and the resulting kernel is explicit and much simpler than the ones that have appeared in the recent literature. An appropriate set of linear time interpolation functions together with quadratic spatial variations are incorporated. Moreover, the algorithm has a capability of handling problems with multiply connected regions. All of these advanced features have resulted in an efficient formulation capable of producing very accurate results and represent significant improvements over the present level of sophistication in this area. This above algorithm is now a part of the general purpose BEM code known as GPBEST. Copyright © 1990 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd