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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Advances in the development of the scaled boundary method for applications in fracture mechanics

Chidgzey, Steven R. January 2007 (has links)
[Truncated abstract] The scaled boundary method is a powerful, though undervalued, computational analysis method. The complex mathematics of the original derivation of the method has rendered it unattractive to researchers. However, the method has proven more efficient than conventional computational analysis methods for problems involving unbounded domains and for problems involving stress singularities. The advantages of the scaled boundary method in dealing with stress singularities make it uniquely suited to the analysis of fracture mechanics problems. This study will extend the capabilities of the scaled boundary method, exploring fracture mechanics applications in particular. Only benchmark elastostatic fracture mechanics problems are analysed as the focus of this work is the development of the scaled boundary method. It will be demonstrated that the intimidating mathematics of the method can be distilled into an elegant method which offers considerable advantages when used in the analysis of crack problems. This thesis will argue that the advantages of the scaled boundary method make it more valuable than is generally perceived and that coming to grips with the sometimes intimidating method is worthwhile. In this study, a significant contribution is made to the development of the scaled boundary method with a number of advances. The scaled boundary method is used to determine the higher order terms in asymptotic crack tip fields. The higher order terms play an important role in characterising the behaviour of cracked structures, but can only be evaluated analytically for a few simple cases. The higher order terms for a number of crack configurations are calculated using the scaled boundary method. Excellent agreement with results obtained from the literature is demonstrated. A penalty formulation is developed for use with a recently developed solution procedure for the scaled boundary method. The new solution procedure is based on the theory of matrix functions and the real Schur decomposition. ... A study is presented of error estimation and adaptivity procedures for use with the scaled boundary method when a reduced set of base functions is used. The error estimation procedure based on the superconvergent patch recovery technique and the error estimation procedure based on reference solutions are modified for use with the scaled boundary method when a reduced set of base functions is used. The use of a reduced set of base functions in an adaptivity procedure for the scaled boundary method is trialled. Adaptivity based solely on the set of base functions is shown to be inefficient. In contrast, the judicious use of a reduced set of base functions is shown to improve the overall efficiency of other adaptivity procedures.
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Well-posedness and wavelet-based approximations for hypersingular integral equations.

Chen, Suyun. Peirce, Anthony. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University (Canada), 1995. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-03, Section: B, page: 1839. Adviser: A. Peirce.
73

Design and manufacture of an experimental system for the analysis of splashing and freezing phenomena /

Ermenc, Mark, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M. App. Sc.)--Carleton University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-111). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.
74

Wave propagation in viscoelastic and poroelastic continua : a boundary element approach /

Schanz, Martin, January 2001 (has links)
Techn. Univ., Habil.-Schr.--Braunschweig, 2001. / Literaturverz.S. [159] - 168.
75

Étude du problème d'ablation à deux dimensions par la méthode des éléments finis de frontière /

Ouellet, Réjean, January 1987 (has links)
Mémoire (M.Sc.A.)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1987. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU
76

An iterative truncation method for unbounded electromagnetic problems using varying order finite elements

Paul, Prakash. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.). / Written for the Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2009/06/10). Includes bibliographical references.
77

Concept space approach for cross-lingual information retrieval /

Luk, Wing-kong. January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-82).
78

Stress analysis of poroelastic seabed slopes under wave loading using the boundary element method /

Raman-Nair, Wayne, January 1990 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland. / Typescript. Bibliography: leaves 137-147. Also available online.
79

Two-dimensional BEM modelling of fibre-bridging in cracked fibre-metal laminates.

Cain, Karen Jennifer, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Carleton University, 1996. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.
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Two-dimensional BEM analysis of cracked fibre-metal laminates with circular cut-outs.

Cudzilo, Bogdan E., January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

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