Material forces: concepts and applications

GA Maugin - 1995 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The unifying notion of material force which gathers under one vision all types of driving
“forces” on defects and smooth or abrupt inhomogeneities in fracture, defect mechanics …

Update: application of the finite element method to linear elastic fracture mechanics

L Banks-Sills - 2010 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Since the previous paper was written (Banks-Sills, 1991,“Application of the Finite Element
Method to Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics,” Appl. Mech. Rev., 44, pp. 447–461), much …

[HTML][HTML] HR-EBSD analysis of in situ stable crack growth at the micron scale

A Koko, TH Becker, E Elmukashfi, NM Pugno… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the local fracture resistance of microstructural features, such as brittle
inclusions, coatings, and interfaces, at the microscale is critical for microstructure-informed …

Methods for calculating stress intensity factors in anisotropic materials: Part I—z= 0 is a symmetric plane

L Banks-Sills, I Hershkovitz, PA Wawrzynek… - Engineering Fracture …, 2005 - Elsevier
The problem of a crack in general anisotropic material under LEFM conditions is presented.
In Part I, three methods are presented for calculating stress intensity factors for various …

[HTML][HTML] A disk-shaped domain integral method for the computation of stress intensity factors using tetrahedral meshes

M Nejati, A Paluszny, RW Zimmerman - International Journal of Solids and …, 2015 - Elsevier
A novel domain integral approach is introduced for the accurate computation of pointwise J-
integral and stress intensity factors (SIFs) of 3D planar cracks using tetrahedral elements …

Numerical simulation of multiple crack growth in brittle materials with adaptive remeshing

H Azadi, AR Khoei - International journal for numerical methods …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, an automated adaptive remeshing procedure is presented for simulation of
arbitrary shape crack growth in multiple cracked bodies. The Zienkiewicz–Zhu error …

The conservative M-integral for thermal-elastic problems

L Banks-Sills, O Dolev - International journal of fracture, 2004 - Springer
In this investigation, the conservative M-integral is extended to treat thermal-elastic, mixed
mode problems. With it, stress intensity factors are obtained for cracks in homogeneous …

A methodology for measuring interface fracture properties of composite materials

L Bank-Sills, N Travitzky, D Ashkenazi… - International Journal of …, 1999 - Springer
A methodology is presented for measuring interface fracture properties of composite
materials. A bimaterial Brazilian disk specimen with a crack along the interface is employed …

An efficient stress recovery technique in adaptive finite element method using artificial neural network

AR Khoei, H Moslemi, MR Seddighian - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, an efficient stress recovery technique is presented to estimate the recovered
stress field at the nodal points. The feed–forward back–propagation multilayer perceptron …

A virtual crack extension method to compute energy release rates using a complex variable finite element method

H Millwater, D Wagner, A Baines, A Montoya - Engineering Fracture …, 2016 - Elsevier
The complex-valued finite element method, ZFEM, is proposed as a new virtual crack
extension method to compute the energy release rate. The energy release rate is computed …