Brittle fracture in polycrystalline microstructures with the extended finite element method

DOI10.1002/nme.653zbMath1038.74652OpenAlexW2073876353MaRDI QIDQ4446616

N. Sukumar, Timothy J. Baker, Jean H. Prévost, David J. Srolovitz

Publication date: 3 February 2004

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.653

zbMATH Keywords

strong discontinuitygrain boundaryDelaunay triangulationextended finite element methodpartition of unitypolycrystalline microstructuremeshing micro-structuresPotts grain growth modeltwo-dimensional crack propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brittle fracture (74R10) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

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