Automatic crack-insertion for arbitrary crack growth

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 75, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 404-416

  Bremberg, Daniel ^a,b   Dhondt, Guido ^a  

^a MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH   (Germany)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Automatic; Crack growth; Finite element analysis; Mixed mode fracture; Remeshing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

HEXAHEDRAL ELEMENTS; MIXED MODE FRACTURE; REMESHING;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 36248993970     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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