A novel singular ES-FEM method for simulating singular stress fields near the crack tips for linear fracture problems

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 863-876

  Liu, G R ^a,b   Nourbakhshnia, N ^a   Zhang, Y W ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Edge based smoothed finite element method (ES FEM); Finite element method (FEM); Mesh free method; Numerical method; Singular ES FEM

Indexed keywords

CRACK-TIP ELEMENTS; DISPLACEMENT VALUE; EDGE-BASED; FEM METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (FEM); J INTEGRAL; MESH FREE METHODS; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; SINGULAR ES-FEM; SINGULAR STRESS FIELD; SMOOTHED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; UNIQUE FEATURES;

CRACK TIPS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IODINE; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRESSES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79953024970     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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