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Geometrical Sensitivity Of The Hypersingular Boundary Integral Equation: Application To Crack Identification

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

32

Pages

10

Published

2002

Size

511 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/BE020631

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

G Rus & R Gallego

Abstract

In this communication, a sensitivity of the hyper singular integral equation with respect to the geometry, is presented. The ensuing sensitivity Boundary Integral Equation provides a means to compute the gradient of any cost functional, which is necessary for minimization algorithms. Some recent results on the computation of sensitivities of displacements and tractions by a Boundary Integral Equation in elasticity are presented.

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