XFEM based node scheme for the frictional contact crack problem

In this paper, based on the nodal displacement of the crack surface element, a novel node-scheme method is proposed to model the frictional contact problem in the framework of extended finite element method (XFEM). The paper systematically illustrates the novel node-scheme including the fundamentals of the proposed method, the coupled Coulomb's friction model. The novelty of the proposed method is that the node-scheme method is first introduced...