A meshless method with enriched weight functions for fatigue crack growth

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1945-1961

  Duflot, Marc ^a   Nguyen Dang, Hung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Crack propagation; Enriched weight functions; Fracture mechanics; Meshless method

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH;

CRACKS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 1842631923     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.948     Document Type: Article

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