Accurate fracture modelling using meshless methods, the visibility criterion and level sets: Formulation and 2D modelling

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 249-268

  Zhuang, Xiaoying ^a   Augarde, Charles ^a,c   Bordas, Stéphane ^b,d  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Civil Engineering   (United Kingdom)

^d Theoretical Applied and Computational Mechanics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crack tip closure; EFG; Fracture; Level sets; Meshless; Tying procedure; Visibility criterion

Indexed keywords

EFG; LEVEL SETS; MESHLESS; TYING PROCEDURE; VISIBILITY CRITERION;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; CRACK CLOSURE; CRACK TIPS; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTOMETERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISIBILITY;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 79952695805     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.3063     Document Type: Article

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