Comparison of a phase-field model and of a thick level set model for brittle and quasi-brittle fracture

DOI10.1002/nme.4886zbMath1352.74019OpenAlexW2123268597MaRDI QIDQ2952762

Fabien Cazes, Nicolas Moës

Publication date: 30 December 2016

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.4886

zbMATH Keywords

fracturedamagelevel setsextended finite element method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brittle fracture (74R10) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Theories of fracture and damage (74A45)

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