Arbitrary branched and intersecting cracks with the extended finite element method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1741-1760

  Daux, Christophe ^c   Moës, Nicolas ^a   Dolbow, John ^c   Sukumar, Natarajan ^b   Belytschko, Ted ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Branched cracks; Extended FEM; Partition of unity; Voids

Indexed keywords

BRANCHED CRACKS; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARTITION OF UNITY METHOD; VOIDS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GEOMETRY; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0034734147     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0207(20000830)48:12<1741::AID-NME956>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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