Near-interfacial and interfacial fracture simulation by the extended finite element method

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008. === Design of composite structures in many important industrial applications requires good understanding of the fracture behavior in the vicinity of material interfaces. In this study, near-interfacial and interfacial fractures are modeled by the...

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Main Author: Yan, Yuhai
Language:en-US
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20496