Integration of singular enrichment functions in the generalized/extended finite element method for three-dimensional problems

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1220-1257

  Park, Kyoungsoo ^a   Pereira, Jeronymo P ^a   Duarte, C Armando ^a   Paulino, Glaucio H ^a  

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

Author keywords

BEM; Boundary element method; Branch functions; Extended FEM; Fracture; Generalized FEM; GFEM X FEM; Mapping method; Singular enrichment functions; Weakly singular integration

Indexed keywords

BEM; BRANCH FUNCTIONS; EXTENDED FEM; GENERALIZED FEM; GFEM/X-FEM; MAPPING METHOD; SINGULAR ENRICHMENT FUNCTIONS; WEAKLY SINGULAR INTEGRATION;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 65449162624     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2530     Document Type: Article

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