Simulation of fracture in heterogeneous materials with the cohesive segments method
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In the cohesive segments method, the nucleation, growth and coalescence of cracks is modelled by incorporating multiple cohesive zones in continuum elements by using the partition-of-unity property of finite element shape functions. In this contribution, the possibility of simulating crack branching is demonstrated by a small example.