A meshfree thin shell method for non-linear dynamic fracture

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 524-548

  Rabczuk, T ^a   Areias, P M A ^a   Belytschko, T ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesive models; Cracks; KL constraint; Meshfree methods; Shell

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; POLYNOMIALS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRAIN;

COHESIVE MODELS; MESHFREE METHODS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMIC FRACTURE;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; POLYNOMIALS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRAIN;

EID: 35448993291     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2013     Document Type: Article

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