Simplified Qualitative Discrete Numerical Model to Determine Cracking Pattern in Brittle Materials by Means of Finite Element Method

<div>Numerical and experimental crack path in Case II of Example  1: (a) comparison between the discontinuity path in numerical model and the crack path of experimental test [<a href="/journals/mpe/2017/3861526/#B40">40</a>] and (b) relative displacement between nodes of the deformed shape of the numerical model.</div>

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Figure 8: Simplified Qualitative Discrete Numerical Model to Determine Cracking Pattern in Brittle Materials by Means of Finite Element Method 