A global-local approach for the construction of enrichment functions for the generalized FEM and its application to three-dimensional cracks

Computational Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-26

  Duarte, C Armando ^a   Kim, Dae Jin ^a   Babuška, Ivo ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended finite element method; Fracture mechanics; Generalized finite element method; Global local method; Meshfree method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964068022     PISSN: 18713033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6095-3_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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