Modelling crack growth by level sets in the extended finite element method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 943-960

  Stolarska, M ^a,b   Chopp, D L ^a   Mos, N ^b   Belytschko, T ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack growth; Extended finite elements method; Level set method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESSES;

LEVEL SET METHOD (LSM);

CRACK PROPAGATION;

CRACK PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0035796822     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.201     Document Type: Article

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