Automating XFEM Modeling Process for Optimal Failure Predictions

Table 10

Computational effort comparison (T-section): conventional XFEM versus proposed approach.

Item of Comparison	Conventional XFEM	Proposed Algorithm
Number of elements	1828	1828
Number of Nodes	1936	1936
Number of Enriched nodes	1936	980
Total number of unknowns	9712	4932
Increments to solve	39	7
Iterations	103	15
Runtime (sec)	15.2	5.4