Analysis of fracture mechanics and fatigue crack growth in moderately thick plates using an efficient meshfree approach

This paper presents a robust meshfree technique for computation of moment and stress intensity factors, and analysis of fatigue crack growth in cracked plates under the application of in- and out of-plane loads; a methodology for efficient and accurate computation of parameters of fracture mechanics problems is thus developed. Although having small computational labor and few complications of formulation, the proposed method has a high accuracy...