The symmetry present in Green's functions is exploited to signi®cantly reduce the matrix assembly time for a Galerkin boundary integral analysis. A relatively simple modi®cation of the standard Galerkin implementation for computing the non-singular integrals yields a 20±30 per cent decrease in computation time. This faster Galerkin method is developed for both singular and hypersingular equatio...

We present a high-order method employing Jacobi polynomial-based shape functions, as an alternative to the typical Legendre polynomial-based shape functions in solid mechanics, for solving dynamic threedimensional geometrically nonlinear elasticity problems. We demonstrate that the method has an exponential convergence rate spatially and a second-order accuracy temporally for the four classes o...

Matrix variate distributions are are used to quantify uncertainty in the mass, stiffness and damping matrices. The proposed approach is based on the so called Wishart random matrices. The probability density function of the system matrices are derived using the maximum entropy method. It is assumed that the mean of the system matrices are known. A new optimal Wishart distribution is proposed to...

Complete dynamical PDE systems of one-dimensional nonlinear elasticity satisfying the principle of material frame indifference are derived in Eulerian and Lagrangian formulations. These systems are considered within the framework of equivalent nonlocally related PDE systems. Consequently, a direct relation between the Euler and Lagrange systems is obtained. Moreover, other equivalent PDE system...

We present a way of constructing multi-time-step monolithic coupling methods for elastodynamics. The governing equations for constrained multiple subdomains are written in dual Schur form and enforce the continuity of velocities at system time levels. The resulting equations will be in the form of differential-algebraic equations. To crystallize the ideas we shall employ Newmark family of time-...

Within the setting of linear elastodynamics of simple bodies, we prove that the discrete action functional obtained by following the scheme of asynchronous variational integrators converges in time. The convergence in space is assured by standard arguments when the finite element mesh is progressively refined. Our strategy exploits directly the action functional. In particular, we show that, if...

We explore local existence and properties of classical weak solutions to the initial-boundary value problem of a one-dimensional quasilinear equation of elastodynamics with non-convex stored-energy function, a model of phase transitions in elastic bars proposed by Ericksen [19]. The instantaneous formation of microstructures of local weak solutions is observed for all smooth initial data with i...