S. Hagihara1, M. Tsunori2, T. Ikeda3, N. Miyazaki3
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.17, No.2, pp. 63-72, 2007, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2007.017.063
Abstract The element-free Galerkin (EFG) method is applied to the calculation of elastic-plastic fracture mechanics parameters such as the J-integral and T*-integral. The fields of displacement, strain and stress for a crack problem are obtained using the elastic-plastic EFG method. Then the elastic-plastic fracture mechanics parameters J-integral and T*-integral are calculated from path and domain integrals. In the finite element analysis, paths for the path integral and domains for the domain integral are selected depending on finite element mesh division. On the other hand, they can be arbitrarily selected in the EFG method, and we can… More >