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Element free Galerkin study of steady quasi-static crack growth in plane strain tension in elastic-plastic materials. (English) Zbl 0958.74074

The authors develop an element free Galerkin formulation for steady quasistatic crack growth in elastic-plastic materials undergoing small scale yielding. A detailed numerical experimentation is presented, and a rough estimate of the range of validity of asymptotic solutions is established.

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74S05 Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics
74R20 Anelastic fracture and damage
74C05 Small-strain, rate-independent theories of plasticity (including rigid-plastic and elasto-plastic materials)
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