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A Node-Based Smoothed eXtended Finite Element Method (NS-XFEM) for Fracture Analysis

N. Vu-Bac¹, H. Nguyen-Xuan², L. Chen³, S. Bordas⁴, P. Kerfriden⁴, R.N. Simpson⁴, G.R. Liu⁵, T. Rabczuk¹

1 Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Marienstr. 15, D-99423 Weimar, Germany
2 Division of Computational Mechanics, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
3 Center for Advanced Computations in Engineering Science (ACES), Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 9 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117576
4 School of Engineering, Institute of Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
5 Aerospace Systems Ohio Eminent Scholar University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0070