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IUTAM Symposium on Discretization Methods for Evolving Discontinuities

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held Lyon, France, 4 – 7 September, 2006

  • The most comprehensive coverage of state-of-the art numerical methods for treating discontinuities in mechanics

Part of the book series: IUTAM Bookseries (IUTAMBOOK, volume 5)

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Meshless Finite Element Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Meshless discretisation of nonlocal damage theories

      • Harm Askes, Terry Bennett, Sivakumar Kulasegaram
      Pages 3-20
  3. Discontinuous Galerkin Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
    2. Modeling Evolving Discontinuities with Spacetime Discontinuous Galerkin Methods

      • Reza Abedi, Shuo-Heng Chung, Morgan A. Hawker, Jayandran Palaniappan, Robert B. Haber
      Pages 59-87
    3. Analysis of a finite element formulation for modelling phase separation

      • Garth N. Wells, Krishna Garikipati
      Pages 89-102
  4. Finite Element Methods with Embedded Discontinuities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
    2. A 3D Cohesive Investigation on Branching for Brittle Materials

      • Rena C. Yu, Anna Pandolfi, Michael Ortiz
      Pages 139-151
  5. Partition-of-Unity Based Finite Element Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
    2. On Applications of XFEM to Dynamic Fracture and Dislocations

      • Ted Belytschko, Jeong-Hoon Song, Hongwu Wang, Robert Gracie
      Pages 155-170
    3. Some improvements of Xfem for cracked domains

      • E. Chahine, P. Laborde, J. Pommier, Y. Renard, M. Salaün
      Pages 171-184
    4. 2D X-FEM Simulation of Dynamic Brittle Crack Propagation

      • A. Combescure, A. Gravouil, H. Maigre, J. Réthore, D. Grégoire
      Pages 185-198
    5. Application of X-FEM to 3D Real Cracks and Elastic-Plastic Fatigue Crack Growth

      • A. Gravouil, A. Combescure, T. Elguedj, E. Ferrié, J.-Y. Buffière, W. Ludwig
      Pages 213-231
    6. On the Application of Hansbo’s Method for Interface Problems

      • Ellen Kuhl, Philippe Jäger, Julia Mergheim, Paul Steinmann
      Pages 255-265

Editors and Affiliations

  • LaMCos, INSA de Lyon, France

    Alain Combescure

  • Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    René Borst

  • Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

    Ted Belytschko

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: IUTAM Symposium on Discretization Methods for Evolving Discontinuities

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held Lyon, France, 4 – 7 September, 2006

  • Editors: Alain Combescure, René Borst, Ted Belytschko

  • Series Title: IUTAM Bookseries

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6530-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6529-3Published: 18 September 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7659-5Published: 29 January 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6530-9Published: 07 April 2010

  • Series ISSN: 1875-3507

  • Series E-ISSN: 1875-3493

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 436

  • Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, general, Classical Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Computational Intelligence, Simulation and Modeling

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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