Treatment of material discontinuity in the Element-Free Galerkin method

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 139, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 75-89

  Cordes, L W ^a   Moran, B ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERPOLATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ELEMENT FREE GALERKIN METHOD; LEAST SQUARE INTERPOLANTS; MATERIAL DISCONTINUITY; NODAL DATA; SOLID MECHANICS;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 0030383252     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(96)01080-8     Document Type: Article

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