Hybrid-trefftz equilibrium model for crack problems

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 569-584

  De Freitas, J A Teixeira ^a   Ji, Z Y ^a  

^a Departmento de Engenharia Civil   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fracture; Stress elements; Trefftz method

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRACKS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

BOUNDARY DISPLACEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL EQUILIBRIUM EQUATIONS; HYBRID-TREFFTZ EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; KINEMATIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; STRESS ELEMENTS; STRUCTURAL DISCRETIZATIONS; TREFFTZ METHOD;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0030082445     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19960229)39:4<569::AID-NME870>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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