Xiao, Sha; Yue, Zhongqi Quentin Boundary element formulation of axisymmetric problems in vertically non-homogeneous solids subject to normal traction. (English) Zbl 1464.74336 Eng. Anal. Bound. Elem. 114, 178-195 (2020). Summary: This paper presents an efficient and accurate boundary element method (BEM) for the elastic analysis of axisymmetric problems in vertically non-homogeneous solids without or with cavity. This BEM uses the fundamental solution of the elastic field in a multilayered elastic solid induced by the body force uniformly concentrated at a circular ring. This solution is also called Yue’s solution. The effective integration methods are used for dealing with the integrals in the discretized boundary integral equations. The discretization of the boundary surface uses one-dimensional boundary elements. It also adopts the infinite boundary element to take into account the influence of a far-field region on the boundary surface. Numerical verifications of displacements and stresses for three benchmark problems are conducted, which gives the excellent agreement with previously published results. Case studies are presented to numerically illustrate the influences of both vertically non-homogeneous elastic material properties and spherical cavity on the elastic fields induced by uniform tractions on the boundary surface. These numerical results show that this new BEM is a fast and simple numerical algorithm for accurately computing the axisymmetric elastic fields in vertically non-homogeneous solids with or without cavity induced by normal tractions. Cited in 4 Documents MSC: 74S15 Boundary element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics 65N38 Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs 74B05 Classical linear elasticity Keywords:BEM; axisymmetric problems; layered solids; vertically non-homogeneous solids; infinite elements; cavity PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{S. Xiao} and \textit{Z. 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