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An approach to the simulation of the cracking and failure of structures is presented that combines the mesh-free method with a cohesive segments model, in which cracking and failure are regarded as the appearance and combination of a series of cohesive segments. This method removes the need for explicit crack representation, and thus overcomes some of the limitations of conventional modeling methods...
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