Combination of the material force concep
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S. M. HΓ€usler; K. Lindhorst; P. Horst
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract A novel approach to simulate crack growth within an extended finite element framework is presented. The introduced approach combines the material force concept and the extended finite element method (xFEM) that is not straight forward and faces the major problem that a crack tip node, w