Non-planar 3D crack growth by the extended finite element and level sets-Part II: Level set update

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2569-2586

  Gravouil, A ^a   Moes N ^a   Belytschko, T ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cracks; Discontinuous approximation; Finite elements; Fracture; Level sets

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TOPOLOGY; VELOCITY;

ORTHOGONAL LEVEL TESTS;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037140063     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.430     Document Type: Article

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