Book Description

"...an exhaustive presentation... [It] should be very useful for BEM practitioners, preferably those with some previous background in elastodynamic integral formulations. On the other hand, any researcher or student of elastodynamics would be able to use this work to gain an understanding of the general computational setting of the BEM and its implementation using the recently derived formulas for the half-space Green’s functions.

Demonstrates how the transient Green’s Function of the elastodynamic 2-D Lamb’s problem is derived and used to develop a fast and accurate time-domain BEM. The Green’s Function is purely algebraic without any integrals and is presented in numerically applicable form for the first time.

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