Spider Xfem, an extended finite element variant for partially unknown crack-tip displacement

European Journal of Computational Mechanics

Volumn 17, Issue 5-7, 2008, Pages 625-636

  Chahine, Elie ^a   Laborde, Patrick ^a   Renard, Yves ^b  

^a Institut National des Sciences Appliquées   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Error estimates; Fracture; Numerical convergence rate; Xfem

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; ESTIMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ASYMPTOTICS; CONVERGENCE RATES; CRACK TIP DISPLACEMENT; ERROR ESTIMATES; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS (XFEM); EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENTS; NUMERICAL CONVERGENCE RATE; OPTIMAL CONVERGENCE; XFEM;

CRACK TIPS;

EID: 72649101533     PISSN: 26422085     EISSN: 26422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/REMN.17.625-636     Document Type: Article

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