Takeshi Takaishi
Transactions of the Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 19(3) 351-369, 2009 Peer-reviewed
The phase field model which is suitable for the numerical simulation of mode III (anti-plane shear) crack growth is proposed. Using these model equations, some numerical results for crack growth are presented. Usefulness of this model is shown in the results, in the case that 2 cracks grow as various types, including the sub-crack. This model has many good features for numerical simulation, such as fixed computational domain, and it would be adapted to the well-known numerical methods. It is expected to be very useful to study the crack growth.