Cracking particles: A simplified meshfree method for arbitrary evolving cracks

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2316-2343

  Rabczuk, T ^a   Belytschko, T ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesive crack model; Dynamic fracture; Meshfree methods

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CRACK SURFACES; CRACK TOPOLOGY; CYLINDRICAL PLANES; MESHFREE METHODS;

CRACK INITIATION;

CRACK; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 10844286509     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1151     Document Type: Article

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