Abstract
AbstractThe boundary finite element method (BFEM (Finite‐Element Modelling of Unbounded Structures. Wiley: Chichester, England, 1996, The Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method. Wiley: Chichester, England, 2003)) is employed for the investigation of the order of stress singularities for several classes of three‐dimensional singular stress concentration problems, namely notch, crack and laminate free‐edge situations. In all cases, the BFEM results agree excellently with reference results. The required computational effort is considerably lower compared to e.g. standard finite element computations and thus establishes the BFEM as a powerful tool for the semi‐analytical modelling of linear elastic solids. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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