Abstract: A finite element method for the simulation of dynamic cracks in thin shells and its applications to quasibrittle fracture problem are presented. Discontinuities in the translational and angular ...

Abstract: A finite element methodology for analyzing fracture in thin shells in the large strain elastoplastic regime is presented. The postlocalization constitutive model is based on a cohesive surface dissipation mechanism. We ...

Abstract: Dynamic tensile failure of concrete due to cracking is simulated using a new class of numerical methods, referred to as mesh-free methods, that are free of the traditional finite-element node-and-element data structure and ...

Abstract: A method is shown for estimating the reliability of structural components subject to fatigue crack growth. The method is general in that it can be used in conjunction with any crack‐growth law and either first‐ or second‐order ...