Boundary Elements: 22nd

Section 1: Fracture mechanics and fatigue - Fully automatic 3D crack growth with BEM; Fracture aspects of cylindrical structures; The stress analysis of frictional punch with crack in plane elasticity using boundary element method; Mechanical and thermal crack initiation along the seal edge of cathode ray tube. Section 2: Elastic and inelastic problems - Thermo-elastoplastic analysis without cells by triple-reciprocity BEM; BEM formulations applied to gradient plasticity; A new formulation for the efficient computation of stresses and error indicators in thermoelastic problems; Boundary element solution for the Cauchy problem in linear elasticity; CVBEM for antiplane stress analysis in an elastic body with spatially varying shear modulus; Elastic inclusion problems; Determination of polar moment of inertia and stress concentration of shafts under torsion load with arbitrary cross section; A multi-variable non-singular BEM in elasticity. Section 3: Numerical and computational techniques - Semi-analytical integration for triangular elements used in the BEM; Extrapolating the number of segments to infinity in the Boundary Element Method; Fundamentals of the hybrid displacement boundary element method; Two-dimensional potential problems: accuracy through advanced integration algorithms and C1 continuous boundary elements; Reformulation of matrix-type multiple reciprocity method for strong absorption domain in nuclear criticality system; High performance computing on boundary element simulations; Numerical modelling of grounding systems in high-performance parallel computers; A more accurate Green element method in two and three spatial dimensions. Section 4: Inverse problems - Direct method of solution for general boundary value problem of the Laplace equation; Two iterative boundary element methods for inverse Cauchy problems; Solution of an inverse Stokes problem using interior data. Section 5: Heat transfer - Temperature conduction across double brick walls via BEM; The influence of thermophysical properties of steels on the numerical simulation of a concasting process; BEM Fourier series algorithms for the numerical solution of Stefan problems. Section 6: Fluid mechanics - Simulation of gas-solid particle flow; Experimental results and boundary element analysis of incident waves against submerged breakwaters; A comparison velocity and potential based boundary element methods for the analysis of steady 2D flow around foils; A new approach for the BEM solutions of heat conduction problems; Indirect BEM formulation for Stokes flow mixed boundary value problems. Section 7: Composite materials - Development in boundary element applications to polymer analysis; The analog equation method for large deflection analysis of heterogeneous anistropic membranes: a boundary-only solution; The BEM formulation of statistically distributed fibers in composites. Section 8: Plates and shells - Stress analysis of plates on 2 parameter elastic foundation using a non-singular fundamental solution; New boundary integral equation method formulation for plate bending problems; A study about fundamental solutions in plates. Section 9: Geomechanics - Dynamic problems of incompressible media; The BEM formulation of distinct element method. Section 10: Electrostatics and electromagnetics -A new BEM technique for nonlinear 2-D magnetostatics; Boundary element modeling of arbitrary thin wires configuration; Bi-cubic spline functions in BEM computations of elastostatic HV-fields. Section 11: Fundamental principles - Singularities in meshless implementation of the local BIE; Application of the BIE with hypersingular integrals in fracture mechanics; Application of Trefftz-type boundary element method to sloshing analysis; A modified boundary integral solution of coupled linear and nonlinear one-dimensional transport equations; Some developments of the natural boundary element method. Section 12: Wave propagation problems - Green's function for point source with general time variation in 2-D scalar wave propagation analysis; FEM/BEM coupling for fluid-structure interaction including nonlinear effects; The propagation of waves surrounded by 3D blast sources around a cavity buried in a half-space. Section 13: Acoustics - The scattering of 3D sound sources by rigid barriers in the vicinity of tall buildings; The scattering of 3D waves by a rigid pipeline submerged in a waveguide channel; BEM analysis of exhaust network systems using the impedance matrix synthesis. Section 14: Dual reciprocity method and basis functions - The dual reciprocity method using multilevel compactly supported radial basis functions; A dual reciprocity boundary element method for dynamic coupled anistropic thermoelasticity; Derivative computation in the dual reciprocity method; An easier DRM formulation for some problems; Mesh refinement for the dual reciprocity method using local error analysis; Numerical solution of non-Newtonian problems by the multi-domain dual reciprocity method.