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Table 1 Strong discontinuity enrichments comparison

From: On the construction of approximation space to model discontinuities and cracks with linear and quadratic extended finite elements

 

X-FEM [7]

Domain enrich. [33]

Shifted enrich. [26]

Linear shape functions on enriched nodes

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Displacement approximation

\({\begin{array}{l} \left. {u^{h}} \right| _{\Omega +} =\sum \limits _{j\in I} {a_j \varPhi _j +\sum \limits _{j\in I_H } {b_j \varPhi _j } } \\ \left. {u^{h}} \right| _{\Omega -} =\sum \limits _{j\in I} {a_j \varPhi _j -\sum \limits _{j\in I_H } {b_j \varPhi _j } } \\ \end{array}}\)

\({\begin{array}{l} \left. {u^{h}} \right| _{\Omega +} =\sum \limits _{i\in I/I_H } {a_i } \varPhi _i +\sum \limits _{j\in I_H } {\alpha _{j,1} \varPhi _{j,1} } \\ \left. {u^{h}} \right| _{\Omega -} =\sum \limits _{i\in I/I_H } {a_i } \varPhi _i +\sum \limits _{j\in I_H } {\alpha _{j,2} \varPhi _{j,2} } \\ \end{array}}\)

\({\begin{array}{l} \left. {u^{h}} \right| _{\Omega +} =\sum \limits _{i\in I} {c_i } \varPhi _i -\sum \limits _{j\in I_H \cap \Omega -} {2d_j \varPhi _{j,2} } \\ \left. {u^{h}} \right| _{\Omega -} =\sum \limits _{i\in I} {c_i } \varPhi _i +\sum \limits _{j\in I_H \cap \Omega +} {2d_j \varPhi _{j,1} } \\ \end{array}}\)

Jump approximation

\(\Delta u^{h}=\sum \limits _{j\in I_H } {2b_j \varPhi _j } \)

\(\Delta u^{h}=\sum \limits _{j\in I_H } {\alpha _{j,1} \varPhi _{j,1} -\alpha _{j,2} \varPhi _{j,2} } \)

\(\Delta u^{h}=-\sum \limits _{j\in I_H \cap \Omega -} {2d_j \varPhi _{j,2} } -\sum \limits _{j\in I_H \cap \Omega +} {2d_j \varPhi _{j,1}} \)

  1. X-FEM [7] approximation space is on the left, Hansbo et al. [33] is in the middle, and Fries [26] approximation space is on the right