Abstract
The Fast Multipole Method coupled with the Symmetric Galerkin BEM is employed in this work to simulate fatigue crack growth. The resulted crack propagation code is accelerated with a fast matrix update, a parallel implementation and a sparse matrix format. By using multiple nodes, this code accommodates also multiple surface-breaking cracks. The numerical tests presented herein allow the propagation of multiple cracks in single or multilayer domains.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 309-319 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements |
| Volume | 106 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2019 |
Keywords
- Crack propagation
- FMM
- Multicrack
- Multizone
- SGBEM