Enhanced blending elements for XFEM applied to linear elastic fracture mechanics

DOI10.1002/nme.2402zbMath1195.74199MaRDI QIDQ3590503

A. Vercher, Eugenio Giner, José E. Tarancón, Francisco Javier Fuenmayor

Publication date: 17 September 2010

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.2402

zbMATH Keywords

fracture; rate of convergence; finite elements; discretization error; extended finite elements

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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