Discontinuous enrichment in finite elements with a partition of unity method

Finite elements in analysis and design

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 235-260

  Dolbow, John ^a   Moës, Nicolas ^b   Belytschko, Ted ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DISCONTINUOUS ENRICHMENT; PARTITION-OF-UNITY METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0342520886     PISSN: 0168874X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-874X(00)00035-4     Document Type: Article

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