I have been looking at XFEM literature for a while and wondering why do we need 2 different heaviside enrichment functions in XFEM? In paper titled "A finite element method for crack growth without remeshing" by Nicolas Moes et al.(1999), they use the following function for heaviside enrichment:
H(x,y)={1, for y>0
-1,for y<0}
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Dear colleagues:
We are pleased to announce that the 53rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES2016) is now open for registration at
Teng and Abhijit
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The second Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award is provided by Elsevier to honor the best paper by a young scientist which has been published in volumes 5-8 EML from 2015 to 2016. Nominations and self-nominations are encouraged. Deadline of nomination is Sept. 10, 2016.
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A recently published paper in mechanical properties of graphene polymer nanocomposites via MD simulations, by Chang-Tsan Lu, Asanka Weerasinghe, Dimitrios Maroudas and Ashwin Ramasubramaniam.
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<p>We consider the scattering of incident plane-wave electrons from a defect in a crystal modeled by the time-harmonic Schrödinger equation. While the defect potential is localized, the far-field potential is periodic, unlike standard free-space scattering problems. Previous work on the Schrödinger equation has been almost entirely in free-space conditions; a few works on crystals have been in one-dimension. We construct absorbing boundary conditions for this problem using perfectly matched layers in a tight-binding formulation.
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