A Generalized Finite Element Method for polycrystals with discontinuous grain boundaries

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1122-1145

  Simone, A ^a,c   Duarte, C A ^b   Van der Giessen, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extended Finite Element Method; Generalized Finite Element Method; Grain boundary sliding; Partition of unity; Polycrystals

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENERALIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAIN BOUNDARY SLIDING;

POLYCRYSTALS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYCRYSTALS; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 33747440027     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1658     Document Type: Article

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