Dynamic fracture using element-free galerkin methods

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 923-938

  Belytschko, T ^a   Tabbara, M ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic; Fracture; Meshless

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE MECHANICS; INTERPOLATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

ELEMENT FREE GALERKIN METHOD;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030107160     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19960330)39:6<923::AID-NME887>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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