Phase field models have gained growing popularity in fracture analysis. However, phase
field modelling remains lacking for complex real-life applications such as structural crushing …

Elastomers and composites made thereof have wide applications, eg, in automobile,
aerospace, and civil engineering. Predicting fracture in such materials is crucial for efficient …

We propose a novel approach to optimize the design of heterogeneous materials, with the
goal of enhancing their effective fracture toughness under mode-I loading. The method …

This work focuses on the representation of model-form uncertainties in phase-field models of
brittle fracture. Such uncertainties can arise from the choice of the degradation function for …

We employ experiments and phase-field modeling to characterize the four-fold anisotropic
elastic and fracture response of solar-grade monocrystalline silicon on the macro-scale …

Continuum damage models are often employed to represent cracking in quasi-brittle
materials (eg, concrete, masonry and some rocks). From a numerical perspective, these …

The mechanical behaviour of many materials, including polymers or natural materials,
significantly depends on the rate of deformation. As a consequence, a rate-dependent …

Laminated glass achieves improved post-critical response through the composite effect of
stiff glass layers and more compliant polymer films, manifested in progressive layer failure …

Understanding the relation between the microstructure and the material's effective behavior
is an important aspect in inverse computational materials engineering. Especially in the …

In the context of the Damage Mechanics Challenge, we adopt a phase-field model of brittle
fracture to blindly predict the behavior up to failure of a notched three-point-bending …