A new nonsingular system of boundary integral equations (BIEs) of the second kind for two-dimensional isotropic elasticity is deduced following a recently introduced procedure by Wu (J. Appl. Mech., 67, pp. 618–621, 2000) originally applied for anisotropic elasticity. The physical interpretation of the new integral kernels appearing in these BIEs is studied. An advantageous application of one of these BIEs as a boundary integral representation (BIR) of tangential derivative of boundary displacements on smooth parts of the boundary, and subsequently as a BIR of the in-boundary stress, is presented and analyzed in numerical examples. An equivalent BIR obtained by an integration by parts of the integral including tangential derivative of displacements in the former BIR is presented and analyzed as well. The resulting integral is only apparently hypersingular, being in fact a regular integral on smooth parts of the boundary.

Issue Section:
Technical Papers
Keywords:
elasticity, boundary integral equations, stress analysis, boundary-elements methods
Topics:
Boundary element methods, Elasticity, Integral equations, Stress, Biomedical measurement
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