Timon Rabczuk1, Pedro Areias2
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.16, No.2, pp. 115-130, 2006, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2006.016.115
Abstract This paper proposes a meshfree method for arbitrary evolving cracks in thin shells. The approach is an improvement of the method proposed by Rabczuk T., Areias P.M.A., Belytschko T. (A meshfree thin shell for large deformation, finite strain and arbitrary evolving cracks, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering). In the above cited paper, a shell was developed based on an intrinsic basis of third order completeness. Third order completeness was necessary to remove membrane locking. This resulted in the use of very large domains of influence that made the method computationally expensive. If the More >