Search Results for: Finite Elements In Fracture Mechanics

Fracture mechanics has established itself as an important discipline of growing interest to those working to assess the safety, reliability and service life of

Novel techniques for modeling 3D cracks and their evolution in solids are presented. Cracks are modeled in terms of signed distance functions (level sets). Stre

Introduces the theory and applications of the extended finite element method (XFEM) in the linear and nonlinear problems of continua, structures and geomechanic

The Boundary Integral Equation (BIE) method has occupied me to various degrees for the past twenty-two years. The attraction of BIE analysis has been its unique

Extended Finite Element Method provides an introduction to the extended finite element method (XFEM), a novel computational method which has been proposed to so