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A boundary-only BEM procedure is employed to solve the transient dynamic analysis of nonhomogeneous anisotropic plane elastic bodies. The response of such bodies is governed by two coupled linear, second-order hyperbolic PDEs with spatially dependent coefficients. The lack of a reliable 2D time-domain elastodynamic fundamental solution is overcome using the principle of the Analog Equation, a method by which the equations of motion of the problem are substituted by two coupled quasi-static Poisson-type equations having as nonhomogeneous terms the components of a fictitious time-dependent load distribution in the specified domain. The standard BEM is employed for the solution of the substitute equations. To avoid the appearance of the domain integral in the integral representation of the solution, the fictitious load distribution is approximated by multiquadrics with unknown time-dependent expansion coefficients, which are calculated at discrete timepoints by collocating the equations of motion at a predefined set of domain interpolation nodes. The obtained numerical results by the proposed method demonstrate its stability and accuracy over other numerical methods.
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Kandilas, C.B. Transient elastodynamic analysis of nonhomogeneous anisotropic plane bodies. Acta Mech 223, 861–878 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-011-0607-7
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