Integrating strong and weak discontinuities without integration subcells and example applications in an XFEM/GFEM framework

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 269-294

  Natarajan, Sundararajan ^a   Roy Mahapatra, D ^b   Bordas, Stéphane P A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Conformal mapping; Extended finite element method; Generalized finite element method; Numerical integration; Open source MATLAB code; Partition of unity finite element method; Quadrature; Schwarz christoffel; Strong discontinuities; Weak discontinuities

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENERALIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; MATLAB CODE; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; OPEN-SOURCE; PARTITION OF UNITY FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; SCHWARZ; STRONG DISCONTINUITY; WEAK DISCONTINUITIES; WEAK DISCONTINUITY;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CRACK PROPAGATION; INTEGRATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STIFFNESS MATRIX;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77954295724     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2798     Document Type: Article

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