X.Y. Long

Stochastic fracture analysis of cracked structures with random field property using the scaled boundary finite element method

This paper presents a stochastic fracture analysis method for random non-homogenous cracked structures using the scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM). The analyzed cracked domain is divided into polygon-based sub-domains such that the material property of each sub-domain can be modeled differently in the SBFEM. The spatial variability of the material property is represented as random field which is then incorporated directly into the coefficient matrices of the SBFEM. The stochastic global stiffness matrix and the stochastic equilibrium equation of the SBFEM through which the stochastic structural responses can be successfully calculated are further formulated. The stochastic stress intensity factors (SIFs) considering the spatial variability of the material property are then directly extracted from the stress solution of the cracked polygon. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method and investigate the effect of the spatial distribution of the material property on the SIFs.