Stress intensity factors computation for bending plates with extended finite element method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 909-928

  Lasry, Jérémie ^a   Renard, Yves ^b   Salaün, Michel ^c  

^a SAMTECH   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c INSA   (France)

Author keywords

Extended finite element method; Fracture; J integral; Kirchhoff Love; Plates; Stress intensity factor

Indexed keywords

BENDING PLATES; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT SPACE; J INTEGRAL; KIRCHHOFF-LOVE; KIRCHHOFF-LOVE PLATE; MODELIZATION; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; NUMERICAL DISCRETIZATION; NUMERICAL PARAMETERS; PLATES; THIN PLATE;

CRACKS; FRACTURE;

STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

EID: 84864913911     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.4292     Document Type: Article

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