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A minimization approach is employed for identifying the cracked element within the cantilever beam.

The new breathing functions are used in formulating the time-varying finite element stiffness matrix of the cracked element.

The cracked element was analytically formulated and implemented in the finite element code ABAQUS Standard as a User-defined Element (UEL) subroutine.

In this paper, the stiffness matrix of a cracked element obtained from fracture mechanics is presented and numerical simulations of three case studies are provided.

The architecture of the proposed method is similar to that of the phantom node method (which is equivalent to XFEM with Heaviside enrichment), and the solution of it is equivalent to local remeshing within the cracked element.

The solution for this drawback is found in the form of a mesh corrected crack model where the structure of the inelastic strain tensor is linked to the geometry of the cracked element.

Smeared cracks are assumed for cracked elements.

Smeared cracks are assumed for cracked elements as recommended by many codes, and the coefficients of stiffness for cracked elements are as follows: 0.7 for columns, 0.5 for SWs, and 0.25 for flat slab of the intact elements.

The ways of implementing damping to avoid diffused cracking are presented and simple examples of numerical analysis are shown to demonstrate the effect of damping and the performance of appropriate damping implementation for cracked elements.

The cracked plate element is represented by an effective plate element with anisotropic material properties expressed in terms of the virgin material stiffness and a vector of damage variables.

A three-dimensional extension of a previously published two-dimensional cracked finite element [Potirniche, G.P., Hearndon, J., Daniewicz, S.R., Parker, D., Cuevas, P., Wang, P.T., Horstemeyer, M.F., 2008. A two-dimensional damaged finite element for fracture applications. Engineering Fracture Mechanics 17(13895 39083908] is presented in this paper.