The laplace transform DBEM for mixed-mode dynamic crack analysis 

 -  Computers & Structures, 59, p.1021-1031, 1996 .
<br/><br/> A. boundary element method (BEM)for the two-dimensional analysis of structures with stationary cracks subjected to dynamic loads is presented. The difficulties in modelling the structures with cracks by BEM are solved by using two different equations for coincident points on the crack surfaces. The equations are the displacement and the traction boundary integral equations. This method of analysis requires discretization of the boundary and the crack surfaces only. The time-dependent solutions are obtained by the Laplace transform method, which is used to solve several examples. The influence of the number of boundary elements and the number of Laplace parameters is investigated and a comparison with other reported solutions is shown.