Crack propagation analysis with Galerkin boundary element method

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 421-435

  Xu, K ^a   Lie, S T ^a   Cen, Z ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cohesive crack model; Crack propagation; SGBEM

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DAMS; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

COEFFICIENT MATRIX; COHESIVE CRACK MODELS;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

CRACK PROPAGATION; DAM; GALERKIN METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 2142767008     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.344     Document Type: Article

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