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Development of Plate Infinite Element Method for Stress Analysis of Elastic Bodies with Singularities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2013

D. S. Liu ,
K. L. Cheng  and
Z. W. Zhuang
D. S. Liu*
Affiliation:
Advanced Institute of Manufacturing for High-tech Innovations and Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan 62102, R.O.C.
K. L. Cheng
Affiliation:
Advanced Institute of Manufacturing for High-tech Innovations and Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan 62102, R.O.C.
Z. W. Zhuang
Affiliation:
Advanced Institute of Manufacturing for High-tech Innovations and Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan 62102, R.O.C.
*
*Corresponding author ([email protected])
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Abstract

A Plate Infinite Element Method (PIEM) formulation based on Reissner-Mindlin theory is proposed for the stress analysis of cracked plates under bending and tension. The validity of the proposed formulation is demonstrated by comparing the results obtained for the normalized Stress Intensity Factor (SIF) under various loading conditions with the solutions presented in the literature. Importantly, the proposed formulation enables the effects of different crack lengths to be analyzed without the need to re-mesh the computational domain for each simulation/analysis. Overall, the PIEM formulation provides an accurate and computationally-efficient means of analyzing a wide variety of plate bending problems.

Keywords

Plate infinite element methodFinite element methodStress intensity factorReissner-Mindlin
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Journal of Mechanics , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 2013 , pp. 481 - 492
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Copyright © The Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, R.O.C. 2013 

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