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Crack Growth Modeling for Mixed-mode Problems

A.P.Cisilino¹, M.H. Aliabadi²

1 INTEMA, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata – CONICET, Av. Juan B. Justo 4302, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
2 Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2BZ, UK.

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring 2010, 6(3&4), 213-238. https://doi.org/10.3970/sdhm.2010.006.213

Abstract

This paper presents a review of the dual boundary element method for modeling crack growth in two-dimensional and three-dimensional mixed mode problems. The modeling strategy for crack coalescence using the DBEM is presented and comparisons are made with alternative solutions where available. Also presented are three-dimensional multiple crack growth and microcrack growth problems.

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