Direct Time Domain Boundary Element Research Articles

Reconstruction of transient pressure and acceleration over a tire surface using the inverse time domain boundary element method

The inverse time domain boundary element method (ITBEM) that is derived from the direct time domain boundary element method by eliminating the retarded time is able to reconstruct the transient pressure and flux on the surface of an arbitrarily shaped source by measuring the pressure on a hologram surface. In the present work, the ITBEM is applied to reconstruct the transient pressure and acceleration over the surface of a tire which is supported away from the ground in a semi-anechoic chamber. The tire is impacted by a rigid sphere to generate a transient sound field, and the measurement is controlled by a trigger which is connected to an acceleration sensor stuck on the surface of the tire. The pressure and acceleration on the surface of the tire are reconstructed from the holographic pressure measured by array microphones. By visualizing the pressure and acceleration with respect to the elapsed time, the wave propagation phenomenon of the pressure and acceleration on the surface of the tire is shown clearly. The comparison of the reconstructed surface acceleration to the measured one demonstrates the effectiveness of ITBEM for transient sound field reconstruction.

On the stability of direct time-domain boundary element methods for elastodynamics

Numerical stability has been a fundamental challenge in direct time-domain boundary element methods (TD-BEM) for elastodynamics. In this paper, an analytical framework for the evaluation of the critical aspect is presented. By casting a convolution integral-based TD-BEM algorithm in the form of a linear multi-step method with a hybrid amplification matrix and the incorporation of some fundamental characteristics of commonly-used transient Green's functions, a rigorous assessment of the problem is shown to be reducible to a standard spectral analysis in matrix theory by which the stability threshold can be clearly defined. Apt to be relevant to the evaluation of other TD-BEMs, the approach is applied to a regularized time-domain direct boundary element method with optional collocation weights and orders of solution variable projections as illustration. By virtue of the proposed formalism and a systematic parametric study, a proper resolution of the critical aspect for some past schemes as well as the versatility of the generalized TD-BEM algorithm as they pertain to the benchmark finite-domain square-bar and the infinite-domain cavity elastodynamic problems are given as examples.

An Inverse Direct Time Domain Boundary Element Method for the Reconstruction of Transient Acoustic Field

An inverse direct time domain boundary element method (IDTBEM) is proposed for the reconstruction of transient acoustic field radiated by arbitrarily shaped sources. The method is based on the theory of direct time domain boundary element method (DTBEM), which is free from the calculation of hypersingular integrals, and thus, its reconstruction process is relatively simple and easy to implement. However, the formulations of DTBEM cannot be used directly for the reconstruction of transient acoustic field, and therefore, new formulations with a modified time axis are derived. With these new formulations, a linear system of equations is formed and the reconstruction is performed in a marching-on-time (MOT) way. Meanwhile, to deal with the ill-posedness involved in the inverse process, the truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD) is employed. Numerical simulations with three examples of a sphere, a cylinder, and a simplified car model are carried out to verify the validity of IDTBEM, and the results demonstrate that the IDTBEM is effective in reconstructing the transient acoustic fields radiated by arbitrarily shaped sources in both time and space domains.

Harmonic analysis of shear deformable orthotropic cracked plates using the Boundary Element Method

In this work, the modal and harmonic analysis of orthotropic shear deformable cracked plates using a direct time-domain Boundary Element Method formulation based on the elastostatic fundamental solution of the problem is presented. The Radial Integration Method was used for the treatment of domain integrals involving distributed domain applied loads and those related with inertial mass forces. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed formulation.

Non-singular time domain BEM with applications to 3D inertial soil–structure interaction

A direct time domain boundary element method is presented based on the Stokes fundamental solutions, discretized in both time and space, and an efficient time step-by-step solution that minimizes the accumulation of errors. A non-singular numerical integration procedure, in the Cauchy sense, is proposed for the generation of the associated influence matrices. This methodology is shown to be efficient for the solution of a number of computationally intensive problems in the area of soil–structure interaction. In addition, an algorithm for the direct calculation of the response of massive foundations to externally applied forces and/or obliquely incident seismic waves is introduced. The accuracy and computational efficiency of the proposed methodologies is established through a number of comparison studies.