21202 Prediction of the crack propagation direction with neural network

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to prevent the destruction by crack propagation. The computational fracture mechanics requires frequent re-meshing as the crack propagating. In order to show the effectiveness of the Free Mesh Method (FMM) in crack propagation analysis, we solve the 2D crack propagation problems with the FMM. The method to predict the crack propagation direction will be proposed using Neural Network.