A new crack tip element for the phantom-node method with arbitrary cohesive cracks

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 577-599

  Rabczuk, Timon ^a   Zi, Goangseup ^b   Gerstenberger, Axel ^c   Wall, Wolfgang A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cracks; Dynamic fracture; Hansbo and Hansbo's approach; Phantom node method

Indexed keywords

CRACK TIPS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

COHESIVE CRACKS; CRACK-TIP ELEMENTS; DYNAMIC FRACTURE; FINITE ELEMENT MESHING; HANSBO AND HANSBO'S APPROACH; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; PHANTOM-NODE METHOD; QUADRILATERAL ELEMENTS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS;

CRACKS;

EID: 48749105211     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2273     Document Type: Article

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