Fracture and fragmentation of simplicial finite element meshes using graphs

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1547-1570

  Mota, Alejandro ^a   Knap, Jaroslaw ^b   Ortiz, Michael ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element methods; Fracture; Mesh representation; Solids; Topology

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; GRAPH THEORY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MESH GENERATION; TOPOLOGY;

GRAPH REPRESENTATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; GRAPH THEORY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MESH GENERATION; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 41049117795     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2135     Document Type: Article

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