Abstract
This paper investigates the accuracy and the convergence properties of the augmented finite element method (AFEM). The AFEM is here used to model strong discontinuities independently of the underlying mesh. One noticeable advantage of the AFEM over other partition of unity methods is that it does not introduce additional global unknowns to represent cracks. Numerical 2D experiments illustrate the performance of the method and draw comparisons with the element deletion method (EDM), the phantom node method (PNM), the finite element method (FEM) and the embedded finite element method (EFEM). The h-convergence in the energy norm of the AFEM is studied for the first time and it is shown to outperform the aforementioned numerical methods when cracks are loaded in Mode I.
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