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Extended Finite Element Method

by Zhuo Zhuang, Zhanli Liu, Binbin Cheng, Jianhui Liao

March 2014

Intermediate to advanced

286 pages

8h 16m

English

Academic Press

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1.1. Significance of Studying Computational Fracture Mechanics1.2. Introduction to X-FEM1.3. Research Status and Development of X-FEM1.4. Organization of this Book
2.1. Introduction2.2. Two-Dimensional Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics2.3. Material Fracture Toughness2.4. Fracture Criterion of Linear Elastic Material2.5. Complex Fracture Criterion2.6. Interaction Integral2.7. Summary
3.1. Introduction to Dynamic Fracture Mechanics3.2. Linear Elastic Dynamic Fracture Theory3.3. Crack Driving Force Computation3.4. Crack Propagation in Steady State3.5. Engineering Applications of Dynamic Fracture Mechanics3.6. Summary
4.1. X-FEM Based on the Partition of Unity4.2. Level Set Method4.3. Enriched Shape Function4.4. Governing Equation and Weak Form4.5. Integration on Spatial Discontinuity Field4.6. Time Integration and Lumped Mass Matrix4.7. Postprocessing Demonstration4.8. One-Dimensional X-FEM4.9. Summary
5.1. Numerical Study and Precision Analysis of X-FEM5.2. Two-Dimensional High-Order X-FEM5.3. Crack Branching Simulation5.4. Summary

6.1. Introduction
7.1. Introduction7.2. Theoretical Solutions of Subinterfacial Fracture7.3. Simulation of Subinterfacial Cracks Based On X-FEM7.4. Equilibrium State of Subinterfacial Mode I Cracks7.5. Effect on Subinterfacial Crack Growth from a Tilted Interface7.6. Summary
8.1. Introduction8.2. Level Set Method for Composite Materials8.3. Microstructure Generation8.4. Material Constitutive Model8.5. Numerical Examples8.6. Summary
9.1. Governing Equations and Interfacial Conditions9.2. Interfacial Description of Two-Phase Flows9.3. X-FEM and Unknown Parameters Discretization9.4. Discretization of Governing Equations9.5. Numerical Integral Method9.6. Examples and Analyses9.7. Summary
10.1. Research on Micro-Scale Crystal Plasticity10.2. Application of Multi-Scale Simulation10.3. Modeling of Deformation Localization10.4. Summary

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Chapter 3

Dynamic Crack Propagation

Abstract

The problems of quasi-steady-state fracture mechanics are described in Chapter 2. In this chapter, the problem of dynamic fracture mechanics is first presented to explain that simulation of crack arbitrary propagation in structures and materials is a very difficult issue. Next, node force release technology is introduced to simulate crack propagation in the conventional finite element method, which is in fact to assign the crack route and growth speed along the element edge. This technology differs from the extended finite element method (X-FEM), because cracks may experience arbitrary propagation in the element. Obviously, one of the advantages of X-FEM is that it can be used to illustrate a natural ...