Pseudo-Elastic analysis of elastic-plastic crack tip fields using element-free galerkin method

International Journal of Computational Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 91-117

  Sethuraman, Raju ^a   Sridhar Reddy, Ch ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Effective material parameters; Element free Galerkin method; HRR singularity; J integral; Pseudo elastic analysis

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ELEMENT-FREE GALERKIN METHOD; PSEUDO-ELASTIC ANALYSIS; RAMBERG-OSGOOD MODEL;

CRACK TIPS;

EID: 44349171097     PISSN: 02198762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219876208001406     Document Type: Article

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