Eighty years of the finite element method: Birth, evolution, and future

WK Liu, S Li, HS Park - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2022 - Springer
This document presents comprehensive historical accounts on the developments of finite
element methods (FEM) since 1941, with a specific emphasis on developments related to …

Phase-field modeling of fracture

JY Wu, VP Nguyen, CT Nguyen, D Sutula… - Advances in applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Coupled seepage-damage effect in fractured rock masses: Model development and a case study

Y Zhao, Q Liu, C Zhang, J Liao, H Lin… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The stability of rock engineering is generally dominated by existing seepage, particularly the
seepage evolution due to the rock masses damage. However, the current research …

A unified phase-field theory for the mechanics of damage and quasi-brittle failure

JY Wu - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2017 - Elsevier
Being one of the most promising candidates for the modeling of localized failure in solids, so
far the phase-field method has been applied only to brittle fracture with very few exceptions …

A review on phase-field models of brittle fracture and a new fast hybrid formulation

M Ambati, T Gerasimov, L De Lorenzis - Computational Mechanics, 2015 - Springer
In this contribution we address the issue of efficient finite element treatment for phase-field
modeling of brittle fracture. We start by providing an overview of the existing quasi-static and …

Phase field modeling of ductile fracture at finite strains: A variational gradient-extended plasticity-damage theory

C Miehe, F Aldakheel, A Raina - International Journal of Plasticity, 2016 - Elsevier
This work outlines a rigorous variational-based framework for the phase field modeling of
ductile fracture in elastic–plastic solids undergoing large strains. The phase field approach …

Phase field modeling of fracture in multi-physics problems. Part I. Balance of crack surface and failure criteria for brittle crack propagation in thermo-elastic solids

C Miehe, LM Schaenzel, H Ulmer - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2015 - Elsevier
This work presents a generalization of recently developed continuum phase field models for
brittle fracture towards fully coupled thermo-mechanical and multi-physics problems at large …

A comparative review of XFEM, mixed FEM and phase-field models for quasi-brittle cracking

M Cervera, GB Barbat, M Chiumenti, JY Wu - Archives of Computational …, 2022 - Springer
In this work, a critical comparison between three different numerical approaches for the
computational modelling of quasi-brittle structural failure is presented. Among the many …

Rate-independent systems

A Mielke, T Roubíček - Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2015 - Springer
Our work on rate-independent systems was stimulated by our search for evolutionary
material models for shape-memory alloys that are flexible enough to encompass nonlinear …

Gradient damage vs phase-field approaches for fracture: Similarities and differences

R de Borst, CV Verhoosel - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Gradient-enhanced damage models and phase-field models are seemingly very disparate
approaches to fracture. Whereas gradient-enhanced damage models find their roots in …