aDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory of Applied Mechanics, LMA, USTO, B.P, 1505, Oran El Menaouer, 31000 - Algeria.
bDepartment of Engineering Mechanics - Faculty of Engineering & Technology, University of Jordan, P.O. Box, 13258, Amman - Jordan
This work presents an implementation of a combined boundary element finite element analysis. An indirect discrete boundary element method, where the fundamental solutions are employed as the expansion functions and their singularities are located outside the domain of the problem is used for the coupling scheme. A comparison is then made between the finite element, boundary element and coupled method as applied to two dimensional elasticity problems.
Indirect Discrete Boundary elements, Finite elements, BEM-FEM coupling
