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Automated Multiscale Fracture Analysis

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A procedure for automated crack propagation analysis in heterogeneous materials is presented. The system uses automated multiscale analysis which explicitly represents the microstructure in the vicinity of the crack front while using homogenized material properties elsewhere.

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  1. Scientific Computation Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, J2180-3590, USA

    Jacob Fish, Mark S. Shephard & Mark W. Beall

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  1. Institute for Strength of Materials, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

    H. A. Mang

  2. Institute of Lightweight Structures and Aerospace Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

    F. G. Rammerstorfer

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Fish, J., Shephard, M.S., Beall, M.W. (1999). Automated Multiscale Fracture Analysis. In: Mang, H.A., Rammerstorfer, F.G. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Discretization Methods in Structural Mechanics. Solid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 68. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4589-3_29

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