T. Dirgantara et Mh. Aliabadi, Crack Growth analysis of plates Loaded by bending and tension using dual boundary element method, INT J FRACT, 105(1), 2000, pp. 27-47
This paper presents an extension of the dual boundary element method to ana
lysis of crack growth in plates loaded in combine bending and tension. Five
stress intensity factors, two for membrane behaviour and three for shear d
eformable plate bending are computed using the J-Integral technique. Crack
growth processes are simulated with an incremental crack extension analysis
based on the maximum principal stress criterion. The method is considered
effective since no remeshing is required and the crack extension is modelle
d by adding new boundary elements to the previous crack boundaries. Several
incremental crack growth analysis for different configurations and loading
s are presented.