Mesh reduction strategy: Special element for modelling anisotropic materials with defects

Cao, Changyong; Yu, Aibing; Qin, Qing Hua

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Mesh reduction strategy: Special element for modelling anisotropic materials with defects

Date

2014

Authors

Cao, Changyong

Yu, Aibing

Qin, Qing Hua

Publisher

Wessex Insitute of Technology

Abstract

In this paper we present a hybrid finite element method (HFS-FEM) to model efficiently and accurately anisotropic materials with defects by developing special elements for elliptic hole/crack based on their associated Green's functions. The hybrid method