Journal
COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING
Volume 343, Issue -, Pages 339-367Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2018.08.029
Keywords
Improved XFEM; Extra-dof free enrichment; Partition of unity; Crack growth; Linear elastic fracture mechanics
Funding
- National Key RD Program [2016YFB0201004, 2016YFB0201002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11472274, 91530319]
- Science Challenge Project [JCKY2016212A502]
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An improved XFEM (IXFEM) for three-dimensional linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) problems is developed. It utilizes an extra-dof free PU approximation to fundamentally overcome the linear dependence and the ill-conditioning issues of the standard XFEM and the Corrected XFEM (CXFEM). The introduced PU approximation is based on local least-squares fitting with a one-point interpolation constraint. The resulting PU approximation interpolates and has no difficulties in boundary treatments. Detailed comparisons are made with the current XFEMs in 3D in terms of accuracy, convergence, and conditioning properties or solver efficiency. Better accuracy and convergence are demonstrated. The remarkably better efficiency with a subspace iterative solver, the de-facto in large-scale simulation, is observed-the number of iterations for the system of linear equations is reduced by orders of magnitude compared with the current XFEMs. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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