Phase-field modeling of brittle fracture using an efficient virtual element scheme

F Aldakheel, B Hudobivnik, A Hussein… - Computer Methods in …, 2018 - Elsevier
This work addresses an efficient low order virtual element method (VEM) for the phase-field
modeling of isotropic brittle fracture. Virtual elements were introduced in the last decade and …

Efficient virtual element formulations for compressible and incompressible finite deformations

P Wriggers, BD Reddy, W Rust, B Hudobivnik - Computational Mechanics, 2017 - Springer
The virtual element method has been developed over the last decade and applied to
problems in elasticity and other areas. The successful application of the method to linear …

Virtual element formulation for phase-field modeling of ductile fracture

F Aldakheel, B Hudobivnik… - International Journal for …, 2019 - dl.begellhouse.com
An efficient low-order virtual element method (VEM) for the phase-field modeling of ductile
fracture is outlined within this work. The recently developed VEM is a competitive …

Arbitrary polygon mesh for elastic and elastoplastic analysis of solids using smoothed finite element method

SW Wu, GR Liu, C Jiang, X Liu, K Liu, DT Wan… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work extends the smoothed finite elements method (S-FEM) to the use of arbitrarily
complicated meshes, including nonconvex polygonal meshes for the first time. A novel …

A low order 3D virtual element formulation for finite elasto–plastic deformations

B Hudobivnik, F Aldakheel, P Wriggers - Computational Mechanics, 2019 - Springer
This work addresses an efficient low order 3D virtual element method for elastic–plastic
solids undergoing large deformations. Virtual elements were introduced in the last decade …

A low order virtual element formulation for finite elasto-plastic deformations

P Wriggers, B Hudobivnik - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The virtual element method has been developed over the last decade and applied to
problems in elasticity and other areas. The successful application of the method to linear …

Hourglassing‐and locking‐free mesh distortion insensitive Petrov–Galerkin EAS element for large deformation solid mechanics

R Pfefferkorn, P Betsch - International Journal for Numerical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We present a novel geometrically nonlinear EAS element with several desirable features.
First, a Petrov–Galerkin ansatz significantly improves the element's performance in distorted …

Sparse meshless models of complex deformable solids

F Faure, B Gilles, G Bousquet, DK Pai - ACM transactions on graphics …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
A new method to simulate deformable objects with heterogeneous material properties and
complex geometries is presented. Given a volumetric map of the material properties and an …

Frame-based elastic models

B Gilles, G Bousquet, F Faure, DK Pai - ACM transactions on graphics …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
We present a new type of deformable model which combines the realism of physically-
based continuum mechanics models and the usability of frame-based skinning methods …

3D mixed virtual element formulation for dynamic elasto-plastic analysis

M Cihan, B Hudobivnik, F Aldakheel… - Computational …, 2021 - Springer
The virtual element method (VEM) for dynamic analyses of nonlinear elasto-plastic problems
undergoing large deformations is outlined within this work. VEM has been applied to various …