Three-dimensional crack initiation, propagation, branching and junction in non-linear materials by an extended meshfree method without asymptotic enrichment

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 943-960

  Bordas, Stéphane ^a   Rabczuk, Timon ^b   Zi, Goangseup ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cohesive cracks; Discontinuous enrichment; Dynamic fracture; Extended element free Galerkin method (XEFG); High velocity impact; Lagrange multipliers; Large deformations

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACK TIPS; DEFORMATION; GALERKIN METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COHESIVE CRACKS; DISCONTINUOUS ENRICHMENT; EXTENDED MESHFREE METHOD; HIGH VELOCITY IMPACT; NON-LINEAR SOLIDS;

CRACK INITIATION;

COALESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACK TIPS; DEFORMATION; GALERKIN METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 36849039473     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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