Quasi-automatic simulation of crack propagation for 2D lefm problems

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 321-334

  Bittencourt, T N ^a   Wawrzynek, P A ^b   Ingraffea, A R ^b   Sousa, J L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

CRACK TRAJECTORIES; FRACTURE ANALYSIS CODE 2D; LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; QUASI AUTOMATIC SIMULATION;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030242472     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7944(95)00247-2     Document Type: Article

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