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Has anybody experience with convergence study of XFEM?

XFEM convergence problem(the problem has converged, along Meshsize not...)

Submitted by zsc13810288137 on

Hallo,

i have the following problem, when i refine the mesh of Mode I fracture with XFEM, the Force Displacement curve seems not to converge.

Mesh Size:

15*15

25*25

51*51

75*75

the reaction force is going to be smaller and smaller...

can somebody help me? thank u very much!!