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 …

Computational modeling of the initiation and propagation of complex fracture is central to the
discipline of engineering fracture mechanics. This review focuses on two promising …

Hyperelastic materials are frequently observed in the natural world and engineering
applications such as rubbers and animal soft tissues. Modeling large deformation and …

Phase-field method, as a powerful and popular approach to predict the mesoscale
microstructure evolution in various materials science, provides a bridge from atomic-scale …

The cracking elements (CE) method is a recently presented self-propagating strong
discontinuity embedded approach with the statically optimal symmetric (SDA-SOS) …

In this work, an adaptive phase-field method is proposed for modeling fracture of
hyperelastic materials at large deformations. The adaptive mesh refinement is facilitated by …

Phase-field models have the advantage in that no geometric descriptions of cracks are
required, which means that crack coalescence and branching can be treated without …

Fracture of viscoelastic solids plays an important role in many applications but it is not yet
well understood. In addition to the time and rate dependent response of viscoelastic …

Progressive damage, which eventually leads to failure, is ubiquitous in biological and
synthetic polymers. The simplest case to consider is that of elastomeric materials which can …

Phase-field damage models are able to describe crack nucleation as well as crack
propagation and coalescence without additional technicalities, because cracks are treated …