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Numerical Simulation of Cohesive Fracture by the Virtual-Internal-Bond Model

P. Zhang¹, P. Klein², Y. Huang^1,3, H. Gao⁴, P. D. Wu⁵

1 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
2 Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551
3 Corresponding author; email: huang9@uiuc. edu; fax: (217) 244-6534
4 Division of Mechanics and Computation, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305
5 Alcan International Limited, P.O. Box 8400, Kingston, Ontario K7L 5L9, Canada