Extended finite element method for cohesive crack growth

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 813-833

  Moës, Nicolas ^a   Belytschko, Ted ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesive crack; Discontinuous approximation; Finite elements; Size effect; Stress intensity factors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

COHESIVE ZONES;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0037192563     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(01)00128-X     Document Type: Article

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