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A NURBS enhanced extended finite element approach for unfitted CAD analysis

Author: Grégory Legrain

Published in: Computational Mechanics | Issue 4/2013

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A NURBS enhanced extended finite element approach is proposed for the unfitted simulation of structures defined by means of CAD parametric surfaces. In contrast to classical X-FEM that uses levelsets to define the geometry of the computational domain, exact CAD description is considered here. Following the ideas developed in the context of the NURBS-enhanced finite element method, NURBS-enhanced subelements are defined to take into account the exact geometry of the interface inside an element. In addition, a high-order approximation is considered to allow for large elements compared to the size of the geometrical details (without loss of accuracy). Finally, a geometrically implicit/explicit approach is proposed for efficiency purpose in the context of fracture mechanics. In this paper, only 2D examples are considered: It is shown that optimal rates of convergence are obtained without the need to consider shape functions defined in the physical space. Moreover, thanks to the flexibility given by the Partition of Unity, it is possible to recover optimal convergence rates in the case of re-entrant corners, cracks and embedded material interfaces.

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Title: A NURBS enhanced extended finite element approach for unfitted CAD analysis
Author: Grégory Legrain
Publication date: 01-10-2013
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Computational Mechanics / Issue 4/2013
Print ISSN: 0178-7675
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0924
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-013-0854-7

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