Meshless method with enriched radial basis functions for fracture mechanics

SDHM Structural Durability and Health Monitoring

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-119

  Wen, P H ^a   Aliabadi, M H ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cracks; Element free Galerkin method; Enriched radial base function; Stress intensity factors; Variation of potential energy

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CRACK TIPS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRATION; INTERPOLATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

ELEMENT-FREE GALERKIN METHOD; MESHLESS METHOD; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 34548348815     PISSN: 19302983     EISSN: 19302991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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