Numerical simulations of fracture proble
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Weizhu Bao; Houde Han; Zhongyi Huang
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In this paper, we propose a method for calculating stress intensity factors of plane fracture problems with cracks by coupling the ®nite element method (FEM) and the direct method of lines. We introduce polygonal arti®cial boundaries and divide the physical domain into two parts: a large domain with