Research Article

A Non-Convex Partition of Unity and Stress Analysis of a Cracked Elastic Medium

Table 2

Total strain energy comparison for Example 2.

-FEM with Mesh I -FEM with Mesh II -FEM with MAM Meshfree enrichment

21.605510783438382.018717728104411.702132029810482.019413351175610
41.815186503511322.082748318204502.110046396546212.112748709582020
61.899152183780872.093441297022002.113560741772012.113806861694690
81.945329260774252.098163679729232.11378584006680ā€”