On the use of embedded discontinuity elements with crack path continuity for mode-I and mixed-mode fracture

By Jorge Alfaiate, Garth N. Wells, Lambertus J. Sluys. 2002

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In Mechanics of Materials

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Finite strain fracture of 2D problems with injected anisotropic softening elements (2014, background): “According to Alfaiate, Wells and Sluys [2], this is due to the fact that an isotropic mode-I traction-jump law is used.”
Element-wise fracture algorithm based on rotation of edges (2013, background): “A non-exhaustive list is: • Full and localized rezoning and remeshing approaches [21, 30, 9, 14], variants of local displacement [46, 45, 38, 42] (or strain [49, 2]) enrichments, clique overlaps [37], edges repositioning or edge-based fracture with R-adaptivity [44]; • Element erosion [61], smeared ”
Finite strain fracture of plates and shells with configurational forces and edge rotations (2013, background): “Full and localized rezoning and remeshing approaches [5, 10–12], local displacement [13–16] (or strain [17, 18]) enrichments, and clique overlaps [2, 19]; Element erosion [20], smeared band procedures [21], viscous-regularized techniques [22], and gradient and nonlocal continua [23]; Phase-field mod”
A comparative study on the modelling of discontinuous fracture by means of enriched nodal and element techniques and interface elements (2009, background): “The constitutive law for the bulk is linear elastic, whereas the constitutive relations for the discontinuity are detailed in Alfaiate et al. (2002, 2005).”
Modeling 3D crack propagation in unreinforced concrete using PUFEM (2005, unknown): “Numerical failure simulations of this problem, which are based on a smeared representation of the crack are given in, for example, [45,43,44,47,9,20,26,25], and simulations based on a discrete representation of the failure zone are provided in, for example, [46,43,44,47,60,62,63,1,38].”
An efficient augmented finite element method for arbitrary cracking and crack interaction in solids (2014, methodology): “This method follows the earlier work in smeared localization models and enhanced strain methods [33–38], and it has been extended to account for discrete discontinuities by several research groups [39–46] following the seminal approach of Simo and colleagues in treating plastic strain localizations ”