Fracture Analysis in Orthotropic Thermoelasticity Using Extended Finite Element Method

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 780-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Honggang Jia ◽  
Yufeng Nie ◽  
Junlin Li

AbstractIn this paper, a method for extracting stress intensity factors (SIFs) in orthotropic thermoelasticity fracture by the extended finite element method (XFEM) and interaction integral method is present. The proposed method is utilized in linear elastic crack problems. The numerical results of the SIFs are presented and compared with those obtained using boundary element method (BEM). The good accordance among these two methods proves the applicability of the proposed approach and conforms its capability of efficiently extracting thermoelasticity fracture parameters in orthotropic material.

2012 ◽  
Vol 152-154 ◽  
pp. 210-215
Author(s):  
Tian Tang Yu ◽  
Lu Yang Shi

The extended finite element method is applied to modeling growth of arbitrary crack with crack surface tractions. Firstly, the extended finite element method is investigated for the stress intensity factor solution of surface traction problems. Secondly, for different water pressure acting on the crack surfaces and different crack length, the variation of the stress intensity factors is investigated. Finally, the process of hydraulic fracturing is simulated with the method. Numerical simulations illustrate that the method can effectively model the fracture problems with surface tractions.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (23) ◽  
pp. 2990
Author(s):  
Soufiane Montassir ◽  
Hassane Moustabchir ◽  
Ahmed Elkhalfi ◽  
Maria Luminita Scutaru ◽  
Sorin Vlase

In this study, a NURBS basis function-based extended iso-geometric analysis (X-IGA) has been implemented to simulate a two-dimensional crack in a pipe under uniform pressure using MATLAB code. Heaviside jump and asymptotic crack-tip enrichment functions are used to model the crack’s behaviour. The accuracy of this investigation was ensured with the stress intensity factors (SIFs) and the J-integral. The X-IGA—based SIFs of a 2-D pipe are compared using MATLAB code with the conventional finite element method available in ABAQUS FEA, and the extended finite element method is compared with a user-defined element. Therefore, the results demonstrate the possibility of using this technique as an alternative to other existing approaches to modeling cracked pipelines.


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