Boundary element method for vibration analysis of two-dimensional anisotropic elastic solids containing holes, cracks or interfaces

By using the anisotropic elastostatic fundamental solutions and employing the dual reciprocity method, a special boundary element method (BEM) was developed in this paper to perform elastodynamic analysis of anisotropic elastic plates containing holes, cracks or interfaces. The system of ordinary differential equations obtained for the vibration transient analysis was solved using the Houlbolt's algorithm and modal superposition method. These...