Boundary Elements XXVI, ISBN 1-85312-708-6Three dimensional crack problems in transversely isotropic solids under static and
time harmonic dynamic loading conditions are studied in this paper using a mixed
BE approach. Hypersingular and strongly singular kernels appearing in the formulation
are regularized prior to any discretization. Two different crack geometries
are studied. Stress Intensity Factors are computed from the crack opening displacements
at quarter-point quadratic elements. The results obtained in this paper show
a good agreement with other results. The number of elements required is rather
small.Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología DPI2000-1217-C02-01Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología DPI2001-2377-C02-0
