hp-Generalized FEM and crack surface representation for non-planar 3-D cracks

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 601-633

  Pereira, J P ^a   Duarte, C A ^a   Guoy, D ^b   Jiao, X ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended finite element method; Fracture; Generalized finite element method; High order approximations

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CRACKS; FRACTURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONVERGENCE RATES; CRACK FRONTS; CRACK SURFACES; CURVED CRACKS; DISCRETIZATION; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE ELEMENTS; FRACTURE ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGH ORDERS; HIGH-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; NON SMOOTHES; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; STRESS INTENSITIES; TETRAHEDRAL MESHES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CRACKS; WEAK FORMS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 60949106238     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2419     Document Type: Article

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