Treatment of brittle fracture in solids with the virtual element method

authored by: Ali Musaeed Ali Hussein, Peter Wriggers, Blaz Hudobivnik, Fadi Aldakheel, Pierre Alain Guidault, Olivier Allix
Abstract: Computational Mechanics has many applications in engineering. Its range of application has been enlarged widely in the last decades. Still new developments are made to which a new discretization scheme belongs: the virtual element method (VEM). Despite being only few years under development the application range of VEM in engineering includes formulations for linear and nonlinear material responses. In this contribution the focus is on fracture mechanics. Especially the treatment of crack propagation will be discussed where VEM has some advantages. The performance of the formulation is underlined by means of representative examples.
Organisation(s): Institute of Continuum Mechanics
External Organisation(s): Université Paris-Saclay
Type: Contribution to book/anthology
Pages: 201-228
No. of pages: 28
Publication date: 04.03.2020
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Mechanical Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38156-1_11 (Access: Closed)
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