Table 2 Displacements of the nodes astride the crack for different meshes.

From: Improvements for the solution of crack evolution using extended finite element method

 

b/t nodes

\(u_\textrm{1b}\)(cm)

\(u_\textrm{1t}\)(cm)

\(\epsilon _1\)

\(u_\textrm{2b}\)(cm)

\(u_\textrm{2t}\)(cm)

\(\epsilon _2\)

\(\textsf {25} \times \textsf {50}\)

625/651

0

0

0%

−1.440139

1.423692

1.11%

626/652

−0.266196

−0.257282

3.35%

−0.982162

0.971528

1.08%

627/653

−0.364776

−0.352445

3.38%

−0.123090

0.134617

9.36%

\(\textsf {50} \times \textsf {100}\)

2500/2551

0

0

0%

−1.103186

1.101015

0.19%

2501/2552

−0.079421

−0.079180

0.89%

−1.047912

1.045375

0.24%

2502/2553

−0.135247

−0.134595

0.48%

−0.922175

0.917316

0.53%

2503/2554

−0.224203

−0.218095

2.72%

−0.607094

0.600957

0.10%

\(\textsf {50} \times \textsf {100}\)

10000/10101

0

0

0

−0.966935

0.965817

0.11%

10001/10102

−0.038211

−0.037893

0.83%

−0.929068

0.928049

0.10%

10002/10103

−0.069104

−0.068524

0.83%

−0.946470

0.945439

0.10%

10003/10104

−0.101041

−0.100201

0.83%

−0.934495

0.933439

0.11%

10004/10105

−0.137217

−0.136095

0.81%

−0.904651

0.903479

0.12%

10005/10106

−0.171298

−0.169814

0.86%

−0.859715

0.858090

0.18%

10006/10107

−0.206202

−0.204962

0.60%

−0.746884

0.743322

0.47%

10007/10108

−0.269666

−0.264127

2.00%

−0.480562

0.476074

0.93%