An extended isogeometric element formulation (XIGA) for analysis of through-the-thickness
cracks in thin shell structures is developed. The discretization is based on Non-Uniform …

A phantom-node method is developed for three-node shell elements to describe cracks. This
method can treat arbitrary cracks independently of the mesh. The crack may cut elements …

Surface cracks are a common occurrence in structural components due to the frequently
highest values of the stress at the outer boundary of the body and to the presence of defects …

Thin elastic sheets bend easily and, if they are patterned with cuts, can deform in
sophisticated ways. Here we show that carefully tuning the location and arrangement of cuts …

We review several studies of crack path in brittle thin sheets where large out of plane
bending is involved. Fracture path are observed to be very reproducible. We present a …

A novel technique to evaluate the path-independent integral using nodal integration is
developed for cracked plate problems. The formulation is based on the Mindlin–Reissner …

This paper reports an isogeometric-meshfree moving least-squares approach for the
adaptive analysis of crack propagation in thin-shell structures within the context of linear …

Abstract Variable Angle Tow (VAT) composite plates are characterized by in-plane variable
stiffness properties, which opens to new concepts of stiffness tailoring and optimization to …

We report on a unique safety mechanism introduced to the Li-ion battery design to mitigate
the effects of a mechanical impact event by limiting the current moving through resulting …

A multi-domain eXtended Ritz formulation, called X-Ritz, for the analysis of buckling and
post-buckling of stiffened panels with cracks is presented. The theoretical framework is …