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Abstract<br />

LEONEL, E.D. Nonlinear Boundary Element Mo<strong>de</strong>ls to Analyse Fracture<br />

Problems and Reliability / Optimization Mo<strong>de</strong>ls applied to Structures submitted to<br />

Fatigue. 406p. Tese (Doutora<strong>do</strong> em Engenharia <strong>de</strong> Estruturas) - Escola <strong>de</strong> Engenharia<br />

<strong>de</strong> São Carlos, São Carlos, 2009.<br />

This work <strong>de</strong>als with the <strong>de</strong>velopment of Boundary Element Method (BEM)<br />

formulations to be used in engineering problems. Particular attention is given to using<br />

these formulations in <strong>de</strong>velopment of reliability and optimization mo<strong>de</strong>ls applied to<br />

fatigue problems. Contributions to BEM formulations are <strong>de</strong>veloped, particularly,<br />

mo<strong>de</strong>ls that <strong>de</strong>al with crack growth in plane <strong>do</strong>mains composed by brittle, quasi-brittle<br />

and ductile materials. Taking into account these different types of materials, the<br />

proposed formulation properly represents the nonlinear structural behaviour induced by<br />

crack growth and the resulting structural damage. The dual BEM formulation is a<strong>do</strong>pted<br />

here for the proposed crack mo<strong>de</strong>l and to analyse ran<strong>do</strong>m crack propagation. In this<br />

thesis tangent operators are used in the non-linear BEM formulations, in or<strong>de</strong>r to <strong>de</strong>al<br />

with cohesive crack, contact problems and <strong>de</strong>bonding problems in reinforced <strong>do</strong>mains.<br />

Regarding structural reliability analysis, the fatigue mechanical mo<strong>de</strong>l was coupled with<br />

appropriate reliability algorithms to compute the reliability in<strong>de</strong>x and other important<br />

ran<strong>do</strong>m values. Several reliability algorithms were tested for this coupled mo<strong>de</strong>l, in<br />

or<strong>de</strong>r to find the most efficient in the analysis of fatigue problems. An optimization<br />

mo<strong>de</strong>l was also coupled with the fatigue reliability mo<strong>de</strong>l, in or<strong>de</strong>r to evaluate the<br />

optimal structural element dimensions and also to schedule the intervals for<br />

maintenance and inspection procedures, taking into account the minimum cost and<br />

problem uncertainties. Many examples are presented in or<strong>de</strong>r to show the efficiency and<br />

accuracy of the proposed formulations in <strong>de</strong>aling with crack propagation, fatigue<br />

reliability analysis and optimization problems.<br />

Keywords: Boundary Element Method, Structural Reliability, Optimization, Fracture<br />

Mechanics, Fatigue.

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