A discrete strong discontinuity approach

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1176-1201

  Dias da Costa, D ^a   Alfaiate, J ^b   Sluys, L J ^c   Julio E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discrete cracking; Strong embedded discontinuity

Indexed keywords

CRACK PATHS; DISCRETE CRACKING; DISPLACEMENT JUMPS; FAILURE TESTS; FINITE ELEMENTS; INTERFACE ELEMENTS; MESH INDEPENDENCES; MIXED-MODE FRACTURES; NUMERICAL INTEGRATION SCHEMES; NUMERICAL TESTS; QUASI-BRITTLE MATERIALS; RC BEAMS; RIGID-BODY MOTIONS; STRONG DISCONTINUITIES; STRONG DISCONTINUITY APPROACHES; STRONG EMBEDDED DISCONTINUITY;

BRITTLENESS; CRACK INITIATION; STEEL SHEET;

BRITTLE FRACTURE;

EID: 67349095825     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2009.01.011     Document Type: Article

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