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3D Ductile crack propagation with the XFEM

Steffen Beese

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Steffen Beese

Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz University Hannover, Appelstraße 11, D-30167 Hannover

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Stefan Loehnert

Stefan Loehnert

Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz University Hannover, Appelstraße 11, D-30167 Hannover

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Peter Wriggers

Peter Wriggers

Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz University Hannover, Appelstraße 11, D-30167 Hannover

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First published: 11 November 2015

Abstract

Ductile fracture is of high interest for industrial Manufacturing. Here we attempt to model this material degradation with a combined approach of non-local continuum damage mechanics and discrete fracture mechanics using the eXtended Finite Element Method. (© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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