A boundary element method with analytical integration for deformation of inhomogeneous elastic materials

Abstract

Abstract. This paper is concerned with obtaining solutions to the equation governing static deformations of inhomogeneous elastic materials. The material parameters are assumed to vary continuously with the spatial variables. A boundary element method (BEM) with analytical integration is used to find the solutions. The results show that the BEM is feasible to be used to find the solutions of the problems and with analytical integration the BEM gives very accurate solutions in a shorter computation time.