Enriched element-free galerkin methods for crack tip fields

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1483-1504

  Fleming, M ^a,b   Chu, Y A ^a,b   Moran, B ^a   Belytschko, T ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack propagation; Elastostatic fracture; Enriched approximations; Meshless methods; Stress intensity factor

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

CRACK ANALYSIS; CRACK TIP ELEMENTS; ELEMENT FREE GALERKIN (EFG) METHOD;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTOSTATIC FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANISM; GALERKIN METHOD; STRESS INTENSITY;

EID: 0031126544     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19970430)40:8<1483::AID-NME123>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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