21  Abstract—This paper describes a numerical solution for plane elasticity problem. It includes algorithms for discretization by mixed finite element methods. The discrete scheme allows the utilization of Brezzi-Douglas-Fortin-Marini (BDFM2) for the stress tensor and piecewise linear elements for the displacement. The numerical results are compared with some previously published works or with...

Fatigue crack propagation is an important consideration in evaluating the design life of engineering components, especially energy and transport industries. Despite its importance, fatigue analyses are not usually supported by commercial Finite Element (FE) codes; fact, most FE codes require addition costly plug-ins to perform growth simulations. Therefore, this paper introduces a new, freely d...

Abstract Ductile damages often happen on metal structures under large deformations. In the current paper, ductile damage criteria are discussed from microscopic mechanism to fracture models. Abaqus FEA makes easy be applied for practical problems. Therefore, paper finally presents detailed implementation of in describe and degradation, simulating failure process with higher fidelity.

The finite element (FE) method has been widely used in predicting the structural responses of asphalt pavements. However, the three-dimensional (3D) modeling in general-purpose FE software systems such as ABAQUS requires extensive computations and is relatively time-consuming. To address this issue, a specific computational code EasyFEM was developed based on the finite layer method (FLM) for a...

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