Fast integration and weight function blending in the extended finite element method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-29

  Ventura, Giulio ^a,b   Gracie, Robert ^b   Belytschko, Ted ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Blending; Enriched finite elements; Numerical integration; Partition of unity

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; FUNCTION EVALUATION;

BLENDING ELEMENTS; COMPACT SUPPORTS; CONTOUR INTEGRALS; CONVERGENCE RATES; CRACK PROBLEMS; DOMAIN INTEGRALS; EDGE DISLOCATIONS; ENRICHED FINITE ELEMENTS; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; NUMERICAL INTEGRATION; PARTITION OF UNITY; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS; STEP FUNCTIONS; SUB-DOMAINS; WEAK FORMS; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 60949094717     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2387     Document Type: Article

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