This volume presents and discusses recent advances in boundary element methods and their solid mechanics applications. It illustrates these methods in their latest forms, developed during the last five to ten years, and demonstrates their advantages in solving a wide range of solid mechanics problems.

Inhalt

Preface.- Dynamic Analysis of Structures and Structural Systems (D. E. Beskos).- Materially Nonlinear Analysis (M. Bonnet).- Hypersingular and Mixed Boundary Elements in Fracture Mechanics (J. Dominguez, M. P. Ariza).- The Symmetric Galerkin BEM in Linear and Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics (A. Frangi, G. Maier).- Classical and Unilateral Contact Analysis in Statics and Dynamics (G. E. Stavroulakis, H. Antes).- Sensitivity Analysis, Optimization and Inverse Problems (T. Burczynski).