The fracture of battery materials is one of the main causes of battery degradation. This issue
is further amplified in emerging solid-state batteries, where the more robust interface …

Mineral grains and porosity are two common properties of geomaterials. This study focuses
on establishing a macroscopic yield criterion for geomaterials having pores and mineral …

The interaction between stress fields at the crack-tip and nearby microstructural
heterogeneities influences the crack path, and in turn, the effective fracture toughness of a …

The cohesive zone law represents the constitutive traction versus separation response
along the crack-tip process zone of a material, which bridges the microscopic fracture …

Cohesive zone models are commonly used to numerically model fracture phenomena on
the microscale. Typical fracture processes are described experimentally via the Double …

The presence of microstructural defects resulting in unpredictable failure behavior has
limited the use of additively manufactured (AM) metals in structural applications. In addition …

In this work we investigate the relationship between the different microstructural features in
additively-manufactured (AM) Direct Metal Laser Deposited Ti–6Al–4V alloys and the …

The tensile behavior of an additively manufactured (AM) Ti-6Al-4V alloy is examined at
multiple length scales using two-dimensional digital image correlation (DIC) techniques. The …

In this study, based on the understanding of blunting and re-sharpening to micro-void
coalescence mixed mechanism, a new full-stage fatigue crack growth model is proposed by …

The disruption in crystallographic arrangement of atoms across a grain boundary interface
generates local stress fields in the vicinity. Here, we reconstruct the continuum-equivalent …