Modeling fracture in viscoelastic materials using a modified incremental meshfree RPIM and DIC technique

In the present work, fracture mechanics of linear viscoelastic materials is investigated numerically and experimentally. Herein, an effective and accurate meshfree method is developed to analyze fracture mechanics in viscoelastic problems. To this end, an incremental approach with higher-order finite difference (FD) schemes for analysis of viscoelastic materials in the time domain, along with an improved meshfree method based on the global weak...