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2022.
STAGGERED SCHEME FOR FRACTURE OF BEAM STRUCTURES WITH EMBEDDED STRONG DISCONTINUITIES
We propose a staggered solution scheme for the embedded strong discontinuity finite element method applied to fracture of beam structures, e.g., see our recently accepted paper [1]. We demonstrate the robustness of our implementation for modeling multi-fracturing fibers in random fiber networks loaded in tension. Our implementation enables a user-friendly integration into commercial finite element software. The FORTRAN source code is freely available to benchmark our implementation.