Thermal fracture analysis in orthotropic materials by XFEM

This paper discusses the thermal fracture analysis of anisotropic materials under thermal shock based on the classic theory of thermoelasticity in the framework of the Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM). A new set of tip enrichment functions for the temperature field in anisotropic materials is proposed. To this end, an analytical solution for the temperature distribution around an insulated crack in an anisotropic medium under uniform heat...