The hybrid crack-tip element approach to
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C.N. Duong; J. Yu
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The stress intensity factors for a thermal crack problem are computed directly from the crack tip singular field as it was embedded in a specialized crack-tip element. The method gives accurate results without modeling a very refined mesh near the crack tip and without evaluating additional line and