NURBS-enhanced line integration BEM for thermo-elastic problems considering the gravity load

This paper is aimed at solving the thermo-elastic problems with the gravity load by the line integration boundary element method (LIBEM). The boundary-only discretization, as one of the significant advantages of BEM, will disappear due to considering the thermal and gravity loads, specifically, domain integrals turn up in the original boundary integral equations (BIEs). Hence, the LIBEM, owning the dimension reduction ability, is introduced to...