Arbitrary discontinuities in the numerical manifold method

International Journal of Computational Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 315-347

  An, Xinmei ^a   Ma, Guowei ^b   Cai, Yongchang ^c   Zhu, Hehua ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

discontinuities; dislocation; dual cover system; material interface; Numerical manifold method; shear band

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DISCONTINUITIES; BRITTLE CRACKS; COHESIVE CRACKS; COVER SYSTEM; DISCONTINUITIES; HIGH GRADIENT; INTERFACE CRACK; LOCAL APPROXIMATION; MATERIAL BOUNDARIES; MATERIAL INTERFACE; MATERIAL INTERFACES; MATHEMATICAL COVER; NON-SMOOTH; NUMERICAL MANIFOLD METHOD; PARTITION OF UNITY; PROBLEM DOMAIN; SOLID MECHANICS;

CRACKS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SHEAR BANDS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 79960122786     PISSN: 02198762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219876211002605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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