Integrating strong and weak discontinuities without integration subcells and example applications in an XFEM/GFEM framework

DOI10.1002/nme.2798zbMath1193.74153arXiv1107.4732MaRDI QIDQ3586911

Stéphane Pierre Alain Bordas, Sundararajan Natarajan, Deshabrata Roy Mahapatra

Publication date: 1 September 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4732

zbMATH Keywords

numerical integration; conformal mapping; quadrature; generalized finite element method; extended finite element method; strong discontinuities; weak discontinuities; partition of unity finite element method; open-source MATLAB code; Schwarz Christoffel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74G70: Stress concentrations, singularities in solid mechanics

74S05: Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics

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Uses Software

• Matlab
• Schwarz-Christoffel
• XFEM
• SC Toolbox

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