This article presents an overview and recent progress of the extended finite element method
X-FEM in the analysis of crack growth modeling. It summarizes the important milestones …

Extracting gas from shale rocks is one of the current engineering challenges but offers the
prospect of cheap gas. Part of the development of an effective engineering solution for shale …

This important textbook provides an introduction to the concepts of the newly developed
extended finite element method (XFEM) for fracture analysis of structures, as well as for …

Fracture analysis of orthotropic cracked media is investigated by applying the recently
developed extended isogeometric analysis (XIGA)(Ghorashi et al., 2012) using the T-spline …

This paper presents the results of 124 pure Mode I fracture toughness tests on two types of
anisotropic rocks, the metamorphic Grimsel Granite and the sedimentary Mont Terri …

New enrichment functions are proposed for crack modelling in orthotropic media using the
extended finite element method (XFEM). In this method, Heaviside and near‐tip functions …

An extended finite element method has been proposed for modeling crack in orthotropic
media. To achieve this aim a discontinuous function and two-dimensional asymptotic crack …

In this work, five different yield criteria have been used, maximum tangential stress (MTS),
maximum energy release rate (MERR), Hill-48, Hill-90, and Barlat-93, in order to determine …

Peridynamics (PD) represents a new approach for modelling fracture mechanics, where a
continuum domain is modelled through particles connected via physical interactions. This …

The problem of crack modeling in 2D orthotropic media is considered. The extended finite
element method has been adopted for modeling and analyzing a crack and its domain …