Modeling of Interface Fracture in High-Performance Materials
F. STAN

Abstract. In this paper, as an alternative to cohesive interface elements approach, a class of non-symmetric/symmetric discontinuous Galerkin methods with interior penalties for interfacial fracture problems is presented. A numerical example is presented that illustrate the performance of the discontinuous Galerkin method to predict the softening response of a structure given its fracture prooperties.