Numerical simulation of fatigue crack growth (FCG) is presented, based on the application of
the extended finite element method (XFEM). Couple of case studies are presented, as a …

Physically based deformable models have been widely embraced by the Computer
Graphics community. Many problems outlined in a previous survey by Gibson and Mirtich …

We present a method for modeling and animating a wide spectrum of volumetric objects,
with material properties anywhere in the range from stiff elastic to highly plastic. Both the …

We review different techniques to enforce essential boundary conditions, such as the
(nonhomogeneous) Dirichlet boundary condition, within a discrete variational framework …

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

Digitization is not as easy as it looks. If one digitizes a 3D object even with a dense sampling
grid, the reconstructed digital object may have topological distortions and, in general, there …

Meshless methods, that appeared in the early nineties, constitute nowadays an appealing
method for the simulation of forming processes. In this review we revisit the basic ingredients …

In this article, the statistics of fracture response in terms of the mean and coefficient of
variation of mixed mode stress intensity factor (SIF) of an isotropic plate with hole emanating …

An assessment is presented of modelling methodologies which explicitly address
microstructurally-sensitive crack growth paths in bcc polycrystal ferritic steel. A number of …

In this paper, second order statistics of mixed mode stress intensity factors (MSIFs) and crack
propagation analysis of the symmetric angle ply laminated composite plate with through …