A meshless sub-region radial point interpolation method for accurate calculation of crack tip fields

Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 118-125

  Zhuang, Xiaoying ^a,c   Cai, Yongchang ^a   Augarde, Charles ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crack tip; Meshfree; Meshless; Mixed variational principle; RPIM

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; MESHFREE; MESHLESS; MESHLESS FORMULATIONS; MIXED VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES; RADIAL POINT INTERPOLATION METHOD; RADIAL POINT INTERPOLATIONS; RPIM;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; CRACK TIPS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

CRACKS;

EID: 84896734320     PISSN: 01678442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tafmec.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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