Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4963887 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 2017 47 Pages PDF
Abstract
The present work proposes a novel method for the simulation of crack propagation in brittle elastic materials that combines two of the most popular approaches in literature. A large scale displacement solution is obtained with the well known extended finite elements method (XFEM), while propagation is governed by the solution of a local phase field problem at the tip scale. The method, which we will refer to as Xfield, is here introduced and tested in 2D under mixed modes I and II loads. The main features and the capability of the Xfield to efficiently simulate crack propagation are shown in some numerical benchmarks.
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