Fracture is one of the most commonly encountered failure modes of engineering materials
and structures. Prevention of cracking-induced failure is, therefore, a major concern in …

We review the development of virtual tests for high-temperature ceramic matrix composites
with textile reinforcement. Success hinges on understanding the relationship between the …

The cohesive element (CE) has been widely used to model delamination in laminated
composites. The penalty stiffness, interfacial strength and fracture toughness are three CE …

This paper presents a comparative study between Hashin damage criterion and the
eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) applied to the failure of fiber reinforced polymers …

Driven by the need to accelerate numerical simulations, the use of machine learning
techniques is rapidly growing in the field of computational solid mechanics. Their application …

In this paper, the recently developed two-dimensional (2D) phase field model is further
applied to study micromechanical progressive failure process in three-dimensional (3D) …

The demand to capture translaminar crack growth under fatigue loading scenarios led this
work contribution to carry out the Finite Fracture Mechanics (FFM) method in fatigue damage …

We propose an automatic numerical method requiring minimal user intervention to simulate
delamination in composite structures. We develop isogeometric cohesive elements for two …

A three-dimensional separable cohesive element (SCE) is proposed to enable the
modelling of interaction between matrix cracking and interfacial delamination in laminated …

A conforming augmented finite element method (C-AFEM) is extended to predict the failure
process in inter-ply of fiber-reinforced composite laminates. Combining with cohesive zone …