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Engineering Sciences

Treatment of Brittle Fracture in Solids with the Virtual Element Method

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Authors: Ali Hussein, Peter Wriggers, Blaž Hudobivnik, Fadi Aldakheel, Pierre-Alain Guidault, Olivier Allix

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Computational Mechanics has many applications in engineering. Its range of application has been enlarged widely in the last decades. Still new developments are made to which a new discretization scheme belongs: the virtual element method (VEM). Despite being only few years under development the application range of VEM in engineering includes formulations for linear and nonlinear material responses. In this contribution the focus is on fracture mechanics. Especially the treatment of crack propagation will be discussed where VEM has some advantages. The performance of the formulation is underlined by means of representative examples.