Analysis of anisotropic Kirchhoff plates using a novel hypersingular BEM

In this article a hypersingular boundary element method (BEM) for bending of thin anisotropic plates is presented. A new complex variable fundamental solution is implemented in the algorithm. For spatial discretization a collocation method with discontinuous quadratic elements is adopted. The domain integrals arising from the transversely applied load are transformed analytically into boundary integrals by means of the radial integration technique. The considered numerical examples prove that the novel BEM formulation presented in this study is much more efficient than previous formulations developed for the analysis of this kind of problems.

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