On the explicit evaluation of stress intensity factors in the hybrid boundary element method

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 26, Issue 2 SPEC., 2003, Pages 151-165

  Dumont, N A ^a   Lopes, A A O ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hybrid boundary element method; Stress intensity factors; Westergaard functions

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COSTS; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS;

SINGULAR STRESS FIELDS;

STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

EID: 0037306402     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.2003.00591.x     Document Type: Article

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