Elastic crack growth in finite elements with minimal remeshing

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 601-620

  Belytschko, T ^a,b   Black, T ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Fracture; Partition of unity

Indexed keywords

MINIMAL REMESHING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARTITION OF UNITY;

CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0032649861     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990620)45:5<601::AID-NME598>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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