Publications¶

The research behind XdTd is grounded in the following publications on the Dual Boundary Element Method (DBEM) applied to fracture mechanics and damage tolerance of aircraft structures.

Book¶

Salgado, N.K. (1998). Boundary Element Methods for Damage Tolerance Design of Aircraft Structures. PhD Thesis, Wessex Institute of Technology, Southampton, UK. Computational Mechanics Publications. Google Books

Journal Papers¶

Salgado, N.K. and Aliabadi, M.H. (1996). The application of the dual boundary element method to the analysis of cracked stiffened panels. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 54(1), 91--105.

Salgado, N.K. and Aliabadi, M.H. (1997). The analysis of mechanically fastened repairs and lap joints. Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, 20(4), 583--593. Wiley

Salgado, N.K. and Aliabadi, M.H. Boundary element analysis of fatigue crack propagation in stiffened panels. AIAA Journal of Aircraft.

Conference & Chapter Contributions¶

Aliabadi, M.H. and Salgado, N.K. A new generation of boundary element method for damage tolerance assessment of aerostructures. In: Proceedings of the 21^st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM). Springer. Springer

Salgado, N.K. and Aliabadi, M.H. Advances in BEM for crack growth modelling. ResearchGate

Salgado, N.K. and Aliabadi, M.H. Rule inferencing and object orientation: an application to boundary element mesh generation. WIT Transactions on Information and Communication Technologies, 10. WIT Press

Citing XdTd¶

If you use XdTd in your research, please cite it as:

@software{xdtd2026,
  author  = {Salgado, Nelson K.},
  title   = {XdTd -- Crack Growth Analysis and Damage Tolerance Design},
  year    = {2026},
  url     = {https://www.xdtd.com}
}