On the performance of strain smoothing for quadratic and enriched finite element approximations (XFEM/GFEM/PUFEM)

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 86, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 637-666

  Bordas, Stéphane P A ^a,b   Natarajan, Sundararajan ^a   Kerfriden, Pierre ^a,b   Augarde, Charles Edward ^c   Mahapatra, D Roy ^d   Rabczuk, Timon ^e   Pont, Stefano Dal ^f  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^e BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Boundary integration; EXtended finite element method; Linear elastic fracture mechanics; Smoothed finite element method; Strain smoothing

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY INTEGRATION; ENRICHED FINITE ELEMENTS; ENRICHMENT SCHEMES; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGHER ORDER ELEMENTS; LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; MESH-LESS METHODS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; SMOOTHED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; STRONG DISCONTINUITY; WEAK DISCONTINUITY;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79953067834     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.3156     Document Type: Article

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