A least square solution applied to plate analyses using the traction boundary integral equation

摘要

The least square method was used to solve an overdetermined system of equations in a boundary element formulation, which had the number of integral equations greater than the number of nodes. The solution with the least square method was so good that a regular solution would present similar accuracy only if a fine mesh was used (i.e. double the number of nodes). The analysis considered the traction boundary integral equation (BIE) to solve a plate bending problem instead of the displacement BIE. Two formulations for traction BIEs were considered, which had the strong singularity reduced with the tangential differential operator (TDO). The strong singularity was reduced in the first formulation without changing other fundamental solution kernels. In the second formulation, the TDO was applied to all fundamental solution kernels involving the multiplication of generalized displacements to reduce the singularities, and the resulting kernels were combinations of those from the displacement BIE.