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X‐IGALME: Isogeometric analysis extended with local maximum entropy for fracture analysis
Author(s) -
Fathi Farshid,
Chen Lin,
Borst René
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.421
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1097-0207
pISSN - 0029-5981
DOI - 10.1002/nme.6784
Subject(s) - classification of discontinuities , quadratic equation , heaviside step function , conic section , parametrization (atmospheric modeling) , principle of maximum entropy , mathematics , isogeometric analysis , mathematical analysis , discontinuity (linguistics) , geometry , finite element method , structural engineering , physics , engineering , statistics , quantum mechanics , radiative transfer
An extended approach is developed by blending isogeometric analysis and the first‐order local maximum entropy for the standard and the enhanced fields, respectively. Isogeometric analysis facilitates the accurate parametrization of the geometry in general, particularly the exact geometric parametrization of the conic curves and quadratic surfaces using NURBS. On the other hand, the local maximum entropy leads to an improved estimate for the enhanced part due to its infinite continuity. Moreover, local maximum entropy paves the way to a nonelementwise crack propagation owing to its meshfree characteristic. To enforce compatibility, the shifting technique is amended for the meshfree enhanced part to localize the effect of the Heaviside function to a narrow region around the crack. Next, a blending technique is exploited to remove the effect of the discontinuity in front of the crack tip. The viability of the approach is illustrated at the hand of several examples comprising straight and curved crack propagation.