This article presents an overview and recent progress of the extended finite element method
X-FEM in the analysis of crack growth modeling. It summarizes the important milestones …

Rigorous characterization of fracture evolution in quasi-brittle materials–such as concrete–
requires computationally intensive and, mostly, complex approaches. However, the …

This paper presents new finite elements that incorporate strong discontinuities with linear
interpolations of the displacement jumps for the modeling of failure in solids. The cases of …

A variational model for the analysis of crack evolution is presented. The method considers
strong discontinuities that evolve according to the principles of cohesive fracture mechanics …

Owing to the solution space enriched with a priori known knowledge through the partition of
unity, the extended or generalized finite element method (XFEM/GFEM) has been widely …

Robustness and stability of the Continuum Strong Discontinuity Approach (CSDA) to
material failure are addressed. After identification of lack of symmetry of the finite element …

In this paper, strong discontinuities are embedded in finite elements to describe fracture in
quasi-brittle materials. A new formulation is presented in which global nodes are introduced …

One of the dominant characteristics of Arctic ice is the development and persistence of
leads. Leads are critically important for climate modeling since they are a source for new ice …

This paper presents the first unified finite element strategy for coupled hydro-mechanical
(HM) analysis of fractured porous media where cracks arbitrarily intersect standard finite …

This paper addresses novel extended embedded finite elements with continuous
displacement jumps for the modeling of localized failure in solids. On one hand, based upon …