A corotational hybrid-Trefftz stress formulation for modelling cohesive cracks

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 198, Issue 15-16, 2009, Pages 1298-1310

  Kaczmarczyk, Łukasz ^a   Pearce, Chris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohesive crack; Corotational formulation; Fracturing; Hybrid Trefftz elements

Indexed keywords

ROTATION; STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

COHESIVE CRACK; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; COROTATIONAL FORMULATION; DISPLACEMENT BASIS; DOMAIN INTEGRALS; FASTER CONVERGENCES; FRACTURING; GEOMETRIC NON LINEARITIES; HYBRID-TREFFTZ ELEMENTS; SMALL STRAINS; STRESS FIELDS; STRESS FORMULATIONS;

CRACKS;

EID: 60849121704     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2008.11.018     Document Type: Article

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