Computational Methods for Fracture in Brittle and Quasi-Brittle Solids: State-of-the-Art Review and Future Perspectives

<table>The principle of the phantom node method in which the hatched area is integrated to build the discrete momentum equation; the solid circles represent real nodes and the empty ones phantom nodes.</table>

International Scholarly Research Notices

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Figure 18: Computational Methods for Fracture in Brittle and Quasi-Brittle Solids: State-of-the-Art Review and Future Perspectives 