The variational formulation of brittle fracture: Numerical implementation and extensions

Solid Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 381-393

  Bourdin, B ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brittle fracture; Crack path identification; Free discontinuity model; Gamma convergence; Variational model

Indexed keywords

BACKTRACKING ALGORITHM; CRACK PATHS; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; FREE DISCONTINUITIES; GAMMA CONVERGENCE; GLOBAL MINIMIZATION; GLOBAL OPTIMALITY; GLOBALLY CONVERGENT; NUMERICAL APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; TIME EVOLUTIONS; VARIATIONAL APPROXIMATION; VARIATIONAL FORMULATION; VARIATIONAL MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; CRACKS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

BRITTLE FRACTURE;

EID: 84861146076     PISSN: 18753507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6530-9_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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