Thermo-mechanical fracture study of inhomogeneous cracked solids by the extended isogeometric analysis method

The extended isogeometric analysis method (XIGA) is further developed to study fracture of homogeneous and inhomogeneous materials under mechanical and thermo-mechanical loadings. The domain of the problem is discretized by the knot spans of the isogeometric analysis (IGA) and the same basis functions used for constructing the geometry are employed to discretize the solution. In addition, crack face discontinuity and tip enrichment functions of...