Structure Analysis for Plate Components Using an Advanced Boundary Element Method

Abstract

Accurate and effective evaluation of physical variables is of great significance to the design safety and stability of plate structure. In this paper, an advanced boundary element method is developed to perform the structure analysis for plate components. The method is implemented as follows: Firstly, a novel interpolation method is developed to improve the simulation accuracy of the physical quantities on various structural models of plate components, which can improve the order of interpolation polynomials without changing the degrees of freedom of system equations, and eliminate the influence of the fitting error of physical variable in integral equation; And then an integral transformation frame is employed to remove the influence of the singular and nearly singular integrals in integral equation and ensure the accurate calculation of elastic parameters of plate components; Finally, several numerical examples (a porous plate, a deck framing and a propeller structure are included) are given to verify the feasibility of the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method can accurately evaluate the physical variables of the plate components.