The cohesive element approach to dynamic fragmentation: The question of energy convergence

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 484-503

  Molinari, J F ^a   Gazonas, G ^b   Raghupathy, R ^a   Rusinek, A ^c   Zhou, F ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Cohesive element; Crack branching; Dynamic crack propagation; Fragmentation; Numerical convergence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTICITY; STRAIN;

COHESIVE ELEMENT; CRACK BRANCHING; DYNAMIC FRAGMENTATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRAIN;

EID: 33846269274     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1777     Document Type: Article

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