On the performance of strain smoothing for quadratic and enriched finite element approximations (XFEM/GFEM/PUFEM)

DOI10.1002/nme.3156zbMath1216.74019MaRDI QIDQ3006552

Pierre Kerfriden, Deshabrata Roy Mahapatra, Sundararajan Natarajan, Stéphane Pierre Alain Bordas, Stefano Dal Pont, Timon Rabczuk, Charles E. Augarde

Publication date: 20 June 2011

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.3156

zbMATH Keywords

extended finite element method; smoothed finite element method; linear elastic fracture mechanics; strain smoothing; boundary integration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74B05: Classical linear elasticity

74R10: Brittle fracture

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

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Uses Software

• XFEM

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