A phase-field description of dynamic brittle fracture

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 217-220, Issue , 2012, Pages 77-95

  Borden, Michael J ^a   Verhoosel, Clemens V ^b   Scott, Michael A ^a   Hughes, Thomas J R ^a   Landis, Chad M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive refinement; Fracture mechanics; Isogeometric analysis; Phase field; T splines

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT; COUPLED SYSTEMS; DISCRETE FRACTURES; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; IMPLEMENTATION COMPLEXITY; ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN; LOCAL-ADAPTIVE; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ONE DIMENSION; PHASE FIELDS; PHASE-FIELD MODELS; QUASI-STATIC; T-SPLINES; TEMPORAL DISCRETIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONS; TIME-INTEGRATION SCHEME;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BRITTLE FRACTURE;

EID: 84856768710     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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