Incremental-secant modulus iteration scheme and stress recovery for simulating cracking process in quasi-brittle materials using XFEM

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2606-2635

  Xiao, Q Z ^a   Karihaloo, B L ^a   Liu, X Y ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cohesive crack; Extended generalized finite element method (XFEM); Quasi brittle materials; Secant modulus iteration; Statically admissible stress recovery (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (XFEM); GENERALIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (GFEM); QUASI-BRITTLE MATERIALS; SECANT MODULUS ITERATION; STATICALLY ADMISSIBLE STRESS RECOVERY (SAR);

BRITTLENESS;

BRITTLENESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947225239     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1866     Document Type: Article

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