Το work with title BEM-FEM comparison studies for the inelastic dynamic analysis of thick plates on elastic foundations by Providakis Konstantinos is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
C.P. Providakis , "BEM-FEM comparison studies for the inelastic dynamic analysis of thick plates on elastic foundations," Comp. Modeling in Eng. and Sc.,vol. ,no.3 pp. 123-130, 2000.doi:10.3970/cmes.2000.001.425
https://doi.org/10.3970/cmes.2000.001.425
Boundary and Finite Element methodologies for the determination of the inelastic response of thick plates resting on Winkler-type elastic foundations are compared and critically discussed. For comparison reasons the domain/boundary element and the finite element methodology use isoparametric elements of the same accuracy level. After a discretizaton of the integral equations of motion in both methodologies an efficient step-by-step time integration algorithm is used to solve the resulting matrix equations. Comparison studies are shown for impacted elastoplastic thick plates with smooth boundaries and supported on different Winkler-type foundations. The numerical results reveal that boundary element method appears to be a better choice in modelling the plate-foundation interaction.