An enriched meshless method for non-linear fracture mechanics

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 197-223

  Rao, B N ^a   Rahman, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack; Element free Galerkin method; Enriched basis function; J integral; Non linear fracture mechanics

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; ELASTICITY; GALERKIN METHODS; HARDENING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

MESHLESS METHOD;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0347135666     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.868     Document Type: Article

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