The present statue and development of numerical computation methods in the study of fracture mechanics

Many numerical computation methods currently used in the study of fracture mechanics are referred in this paper.The detailed characters of finite element method,boundary element method,element-free method,numerical manifold method,and wavelet method,etc.are analyzed.The present statue of the usages of those numerical computation methods in the study of fracture mechanics is present.Finally,The development trends of the numerical computation methods using for the fracture mechanics are discussed.