An isogeometric symmetric Galerkin boundary element method for two-dimensional crack problems

The isogeometric analysis is applied for the weakly singular symmetric Galerkin boundary element method (SGBEM) to analyze quasi-static elastic problems including crack problems in two-dimensional domains. This method takes the advantages from the common boundary representation of the isogeometric analysis and the boundary element method. The background of the developed method is to use non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS) for the Galerkin...