The use of quarter-point crack-tip elements for T-stress determination in boundary element method analysis

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 70, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2247-2252

  Tan, C L ^a   Wang, X ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; T stress

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CLASSICAL FIELD SOLUTION;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0041340553     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(02)00251-5     Document Type: Article

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