Three dimensional virtual crack closure-integral method (VCCM) with skewed and non-symmetric mesh arrangement at the crack front

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1717-1737

  Okada, Hiroshi ^a   Higashi, Mayumi ^a   Kikuchi, Masanori ^b   Fukui, Yasuyoshi ^a   Kumazawa, Noriyoshi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crack closure integral; Energy release rate; Finite element method; Stress intensity factor; Virtual crack closure integral method (VCCM)

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CRACK FRONT; HEXAHEDRON FINITE ELEMENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL LINEAR FRACTURE MECHANICS ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL CRACK CLOSURE-INTEGRAL METHOD (VCCM);

CRACKS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 15544364099     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2004.12.005     Document Type: Article

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