A virtual crack closure-integral method (VCCM) to compute the energy release rates and stress intensity factors based on quadratic tetrahedral finite elements

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 75, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4466-4485

  Okada, Hiroshi ^a   Kawai, Hiroshi ^b   Araki, Kousuke ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerospace vehicles; Crack; Energy release rates; Finite element analysis; Fracture mechanics; Marine structures; Metals; Power plants; Stress intensity factors; Surface flaw; Tetrahedral finite element; Virtual crack closure integral method (VCCM)

Indexed keywords

CRACK CLOSURE; CRACK DETECTION; CRACKS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

AUTOMATIC MESH GENERATION; CRACK ANALYSIS; CRACK PROBLEMS; ELSEVIER (CO); ENERGY RELEASES; FINITE ELEMENT (FE); HEXAHEDRAL ELEMENTS; INTENSITY FACTORS; NUMERICA L RESULTS; PROCESS TIME; STRESS INTENSITY; VIRTUAL CRACK CLOSURE-INTEGRAL METHOD (VCCM);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 47549091504     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2008.04.014     Document Type: Article

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