Innovations of advanced materials have been at the core of most engineering technologies,
devices and systems. Composite laminates in particular have been extensively employed in …

Composite structures formed using thin-ply laminates are of interest to aerospace and other
high-performance industries. This paper reviews recently published research into fibre …

We present a phase field modeling framework for hydrogen assisted cracking. The model
builds upon a coupled mechanical and hydrogen diffusion response, driven by chemical …

We present a new theoretical and computational framework for modelling electro-chemo-
mechanical fracture. The model combines a phase field description of fracture with a fully …

The introduction of the spread-tow thin-ply technology enabled the development of
composite plies as thin as 0.020 mm. The availability of composite plies with a broader …

Phase-Field (PF) methods of fracture have emerged as powerful modeling tools for
triggering fracture events in solids. These numerical techniques efficiently alleviate mesh …

The development of predictive numerical methods, which accurately represent the
progressive failure of long fiber composite materials, is nowadays required for the …

In this work, we propose an adaptive phase field method (PFM) to simulate quasi-static
brittle fracture problems. The phase field equations are solved using the scaled boundary …

A phase field (PF) approximation of fracture for functionally graded materials (FGM) using a
diffusive crack approach incorporating the characteristic length scale as a material …

Amongst the available methods to model fracture processes, the phase field approach has
proved to be efficient and has received extensive attention. However, the approach is …