Evolutionary characteristic length method for smeared cracking finite element models

DOI10.1016/S0168-874X(97)00007-3zbMATH Open0915.73061OpenAlexW2020337748MaRDI QIDQ1391016FDOQ1391016

Authors: K. M. Mosalam, Glaucio H. Paulino 

Publication date: 22 July 1998

Published in: Finite Elements in Analysis and Design (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-874x(97)00007-3

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlocal continuumself-adaptive strategystrain decompositioncrack band widthfixed smeared crack conceptsuperconvergence patch recovery procedure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Fracture and damage (74R99)

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