Near-crack-tip measurements within an Arlequin modeling for the numerical evaluation of far-field quantities of interest

As a possible solution to this issue, we propose here to use the Arlequin framework [BEN98, BEN05] to mix experimental data measured in the vicinity of the local phenomenon with a global numerical model suited for the prediction of a specific quantity of interest. Let us recall here that the Arlequin method is a versatile numerical approach which, as shown in Figure 1, allows for the superposition and coupling of different models on a specific zone, typically a surface or a volume.