Plate Bending Analysis With Boundary Elements (Advances in Boundary Elements Series, Volume 2)

Thin walled plate structures are used widely throughout engineering practice in the design of aircraft, spacecraft and ground structures. Studying their behavior when subjected to different loadings is thus important.

This book presents boundary element formulations for linear and non-linear problems in plate bending, providing readers with a detailed formulation and implementation of the Boundary Element Method for plate bending analysis. The book's 10 chapters were written by experts, at the invitation of the book's editor, and cover the application of the BEM to foundation plates, stability analysis, and fracture mechanics, as well as hypersingular formulations and adaptive techniques.