Fracture analysis for materials by a stable generalized/extended finite element method

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this paper, a method is proposed for extracting fracture parameters in isotropic material cracking via a stable generalized/extended finite element method. The numerical results of the stress intensity factors and scaled condition number of the system matrix are presented and compared with different enrichment schemes or those reported in related references. The good agreement and convergence of the results obtained by the developed method with those obtained by other solutions or enrichment schemes proves the applicability of the proposed approach and confirms its capability of efficiently extracting fracture parameters in isotropic materials.