The extended finite element (XFEM) has been applied to investigate fatigue crack growth in
engineering components containing different types of material irregularities. The standard …

This study presents an eXtended Boundary Element Method (XBEM) formulation for
simulating the linear elastic crack growth in two-dimensional domains. A displacement …

Fracture mechanics and crack propagation problems have been widely studied by the
scientific community in recent years, because crack growth phenomenon can explain the …

Mechanical collapse in a wide range of materials occurs due to the growth of internal
discontinuities. Such discontinuities, commonly denominated cracks, are explained …

This study presents an improved computational framework based on the Dual Boundary
Element Method (DBEM) for modelling three-dimensional mixed-mode fatigue crack …

In classical Hertz theory, the peak failure stresses do not occur directly on the contacting
area but beneath the surface, thus contradicting a common appearance of failures on the …

Non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS) are a convenient way to integrate CAD software
and analysis codes, saving time from the operator and allowing efficient solution schemes …

The adequate coupling of dissimilar materials and structural element types provides
effective engineering designs. Particularly, it enables high stiffness and low weight …

The fracture process in concrete involves nonlinear mechanical phenomena, which are
accurately represented via the cohesive crack model. Due to the inherent randomness of …

The present study aims at performing a mechanical analysis of 2D viscoelastic cracked
structural materials using the Boundary Element Method (BEM). The mesh dimensionality …