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Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering >> 2019, Volume 14, Issue 3 doi: 10.1007/s11465-019-0540-3

A family of non-conforming crack front elements of quadrilateral and triangular types for 3D crack problems using the boundary element method

. Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing of Mechanical, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Institute, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou 450002, China.. College of Mechanical Engineering, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou 412007, China

Accepted: 2019-07-08 Available online: 2019-07-08

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Abstract

This study focuses on establishing non-conforming crack front elements of quadrilateral and triangular types for 3D crack problems when the dual boundary element method is applied. The asymptotic behavior of the physical variables in the area near the crack front is fully considered in the construction of the shape function. In the developed quadrilateral and triangular crack front elements, the asymptotic term, which captures the asymptotic behavior of the physical variable, is multiplied directly by the conventional Lagrange shape function to form a new crack front shape function. Several benchmark numerical examples that consider penny-shaped cracks and straight-edge crack problems are presented to illustrate the validity and efficiency of the developed crack front elements.

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