A partition of unity enriched dual boundary element method for accurate computations in fracture mechanics

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 200, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Simpson, Robert ^a   Trevelyan, Jon ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BEM; Enrichment; Fracture; Partition of unity

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY EQUATIONS; BEM; BOUNDARY INTEGRALS; COLLOCATION POINTS; CRACK PROBLEMS; DUAL BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; ELEMENT FORMULATION; ENRICHMENT; HYPERSINGULAR; MIXED MODE CRACK; NUMERICAL-QUADRATURE METHOD; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARTITION OF UNITY; PARTITION OF UNITY METHODS; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; SOLUTION SPACE;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; CRACKS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 78649632551     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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