A symmetric Galerkin multi-zone boundary element method for cohesive crack growth

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 591-609

  Chen, Tianzhi ^a   Wang, Bo ^a   Cen, Zhangzhi ^a   Wu, Zhishen ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cohesive crack; Crack growth; Fracture; Galerkin BEM

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE; GALERKIN METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

COHESIVE CRACK GROWTH; GALERKIN MULTI ZONE BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0345493893     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(99)00036-3     Document Type: Article

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