Performance of quarter-point boundary elements in analysing thermally stressed kinked and curved cracks

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 153-165

  Katsareas, Dimitrios E ^a   Anifantis, Nikolaos K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; HEAT FLUX; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL STRESS; THERMOELASTICITY;

CRACK-TIP ELEMENT SIZE; TRACTION-BASED FORMULAS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0030259334     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(96)01062-6     Document Type: Article

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