Multiple crack weight for solution of multiple interacting cracks by meshless numerical methods

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1146-1159

  Muravin, Boris ^a   Turkel, Eli ^b  

^a Margan Physical Diagnostics Ltd   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Meshless methods; Multiple crack weight; Multiple interacting cracks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

MESHLESS METHODS; MULTIPLE CRACK WEIGHT; MULTIPLE INTERACTING CRACKS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ALGORITHMS; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

EID: 33747429098     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1661     Document Type: Article

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