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XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Warsaw, Poland, August 15-21, 2004

A Quasi - Spherical Coordinate System and Its Application to the Determination of Vertex - Type Singularities

Hai - Tao Wang (1), K. Y. Sze (2)
1. Department of Civil Engineering, SCUT, China
2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU, Hong Kong, China


To avoid the inherent singularity of the spherical coordinates at their poles, a new quasi-spherical coordinate system is developed. In this coordinate system, a finite element procedure is proposed to determining the eigensolutions at three-dimensional vertices in which the field variables are proportional to the (lambda+1)-th power of the distance from the vertices. The resulting global equation is a second order characteristic matrix equation. Several demonstrating problems are investigated. It can be seen that the formulation yield satisfactory results.



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