Issue 60

H. Djeloud et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 60 (2022) 346-362; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.60.24

Insertion of material properties

Insertion of the geometry properties of the discontinuities structure

Insert material properties

Insert material properties

Meshing with Gmsh

Reading mesh data files

Localization by Level set

Construction of stiffness matrices

Assembly by vectorization technique

Insertion of boundary conditions System resolution ൌ Determinations of the displacement field

Calculation of deformations and stresses field

No

Yes

If the crack exists

Calculate stresses and principal vectors

Calculation of the J-integral and propagation

If σ ூ ൒ ோ

No

Yes

Crack creation

End

Figure 4: Flowchart of our calculation code .

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