Analytical removal of singularity and direct evaluation of singular integrals in 3-D elastoplastic finite deformation analysis by BEM

As a further development of the present authors' research work [1,2], in this paper a method of the so-called quadratic pentahedron polar co-ordinate transformation and analytical removal of singularity of Cauchy principal value singular integrals is proposed to evaluate the strongly singular integrals in the sense of Cauchy principal values and the weakly singular integrals over quadratic internal cells in 3-D elastoplastic finite deformation analysis by BEM. First, a quadratic pentahedron polar co-ordinate transformation technique is used to reduce the order of singularity of the singular integrals. Then, a form of Gauss' theorem is introduced to remove the singularity in the Cauchy principal value singular integrals analytically. Therefore, the evaluation of all those strongly and weakly singular integrals can be carried out by standard Gaussian quadrature accurately and efficiently. Numerical examples of the 3-D elastoplastic problem and 3-D finite deformation problem are given to demonstrate that the method possesses good accuracy and numerical stability, and is convenient to implement. The method in this paper can be applied extensively to evaluating the singular integrals over cubic and higher order elements.