A quasi-static crack growth simulation b
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N. Nourbakhshnia; G. R. Liu
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract In the edge‐based smoothed finite element method (ES‐FEM), one needs only the assumed displacement values (not the derivatives) on the boundary of the edge‐based smoothing domains to compute the stiffness matrix of the system. Adopting this important feature, a five‐node crack‐tip eleme