25/7/14    09:00 - 11:00
Enriched Finite Element Formulations to Capture Cracks, Material Interfaces and Multiscale Phenomena I
Minisymposium organized by Bert Sluys, Jorge Alfaiate and Daniel Dias-da-Costa
Room: Xaloc
MS213A
Chair: Jorge Alfaiate
A numerical study on the behaviour of a glass beam strengthened with GFRP pultruded laminates
Pedro Neto, Jorge Alfaiate, Rui Graça-e-Costa, Daniel Dias-da-Costa , Luís Valarinho, João R. Correia , Fernando A. Branco and João Vinagre

A discrete embedded strong discontinuity approach for the simulation of three-dimensional fracture problems
Carlos Octávio, Daniel Dias-da-Costa, Jorge Alfaiate, C. Armando Duarte and Eduardo Júlio

Study on effect of three dimensional Akin singular element for stress analysis of dissimilar material joints
Takahiko Kurahashi, Yutaro Watanabe, Toshimi Kondo and Hideo Koguchi

Crack modelling by hybrid-Trefftz stress finite elements
Maria J.Q.R. Duarte and João A.T. Freitas

Transition from distributed to localized cracking in quasibrittle materials
Jaime Planas, José M. Sancho, Beatriz Sanz and Alejandro Aranguren