J. Giroire et Jc. Nedelec, A NEW SYSTEM OF BOUNDARY INTEGRAL-EQUATIONS FOR PLATES WITH FREE EDGES, Mathematical methods in the applied sciences, 18(10), 1995, pp. 755-772
We present a new system of boundary integral equations for the free-ed
ge plate. This system expresses an abstract symmetric variational prob
lem posed on the boundary of the plate. In order to obtain this abstra
ct problem, we must set the exterior boundary value problem correspond
ing to the free-edge plate in a framework of weighted Sobolev spaces.
Finally, we take care of the hypersingular kernels appearing in our sy
stem of BIEs, by using an abstract technique of integration by parts.