TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Mostafa Shaaban Mohamed AU - Hussein Hamed Elmamlouk , AU - Youssef Fawzy Rashed , TI - Boundary element analysis of rafts on elastic half space / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Mostafa Shaaban Mohamed , KW - Boundary Element Method KW - Elastic Half Space KW - Rafts N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - A new Boundary Element Method (BEM) is presented to solve raft plates on elastic half space (EHS) according to Boussinesq - Mindlin or Steinbrener . The considered BEM is based on the shear deformable plate bending theory of reissner . The soil stiffness matrix is computed . Hence this stiffness matrix is directly incorporated inside the developed BEM UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -