Crack propagation toward a desired path by controlling the force direction

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 76, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2554-2559

  Xu, Baoxing ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   Waisman, Haim ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Crack; Desired path; Force direction; XFEM

Indexed keywords

DESIRED PATH; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORCE DIRECTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POINT FORCE; XFEM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 70349744222     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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