Numerical solutions for crack growth based on the variational theory of fracture

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 285-301

  Angelillo, Maurizio ^a   Babilio, Enrico ^b   Fortunato, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brittle fracture; Descent methods; Energy minimization; Variable mesh

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE; MESH GENERATION;

DESCENT METHOD; DISCONTINUOUS FINITE ELEMENT; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; GLOBAL MINIMIZATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; VARIABLE MESH; VARIATIONAL MODELING; VARIATIONAL THEORY;

BRITTLE FRACTURE;

EID: 84871496791     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-012-0755-1     Document Type: Article

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