Enhanced blending elements for XFEM applied to linear elastic fracture mechanics

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 126-148

  Tarancon J E ^a   Vercher, A ^a   Giner, E ^a   Fuenmayor, F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discretization error; Extended finite elements; Finite elements; Fracture; Rate of convergence

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; BRITTLE FRACTURE; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACK TIPS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INTERPOLATION; MECHANICS; NUMBER THEORY; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

BLENDING ELEMENTS; CONDITION NUMBER OF THE STIFFNESS MATRIXES; CONVERGENCE RATES; CRACK GEOMETRIES; CRACK-TIP; DEGREES OF FREEDOMS; DISCRETIZATION ERROR; DISPLACEMENT FIELDS; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENTS; FINITE ELEMENTS; LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTITION OF UNITY METHODS; RATE OF CONVERGENCE; RE-MESHING; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; STANDARD FINITE ELEMENTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 60949089805     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2402     Document Type: Article

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