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HOMEWORK 03: CRACK PROPAGATION BY COHESIVE SURFACE

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HUZAIFA SHABBIR
1/22/2015

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Images of the global mesh:

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Figure 1: Schematic illustration of (a) global mesh of the model and (b) magnified part of the
global mesh for better visualization (magnified left side of (a)).

Images of the mesh at the crack tip:

Figure 2: Representation of the mesh at the crack (magnified image of the model to visualize
properly the mesh at the crack).

Contour plot before crack start to propagate: