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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 53
ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper II.7

Dual Boundary Element Method for Crack Growth Analysis on Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors

P. Gonzalez, T.F. Pena, J.C. Cabaleiro and F.F. Rivera

Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
P. Gonzalez, T.F. Pena, J.C. Cabaleiro, F.F. Rivera, "Dual Boundary Element Method for Crack Growth Analysis on Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Engineering Computational Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 65-71, 1998. doi:10.4203/ccp.53.2.7
Abstract
The Dual Boundary Element Method (DBEM) has been presented as an effective numerical technique for the analysis of linear elastic crack problems. Analysis of large structural integrity problems may need the use of large computational resources, both in terms of CPU time and memory requirements. This paper reports a message-passing implementation of the Dual Boundary Element formulation dealing with the analysis of crack growth in structures. The parallel algorithm is framed on a distributed computing environment using the Message-Passing Interface (MPI). Different data distribution techniques have been studied and the performance of the methods has been tested for several problems. The results, in terms of scalability and load balance, are presented in this paper. Our experience indicates that MP1 provides an effective distributed computing environment for BEM research and its different applications.

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