Mesh objective tensile cracking via a local continuum damage model and a crack tracking technique

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 196, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 304-320

  Cervera, M ^a   Chiumenti, M ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING CIMNE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Damage; Mesh dependence; Smeared crack approach; Strain localization; Strain softening; Tensile cracking; Tracking algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRACK PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; STRAIN;

CONTINUUM DAMAGE; MESH DEPENDENCE; SMEARED CRACK; STRAIN LOCALIZATION; STRAIN SOFTENING; TENSILE CRACKING;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

ALGORITHMS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRACK PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; STRAIN;

EID: 33846480467     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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