The fracture of brittle amorphous materials is an especially challenging problem, because
the way a large object shatters is intimately tied to details of cohesion at microscopic scales …

Current understanding of dynamic fracture mechanisms and the methods of modeling are
reviewed critically. Experimental methods used in dynamic fracture investigations and key …

In this paper we review the peridynamic model for brittle fracture and use it to investigate
crack branching in brittle homogeneous and isotropic materials. The peridynamic …

In this paper we discuss the peridynamic analysis of dynamic crack branching in brittle
materials and show results of convergence studies under uniform grid refinement (m …

Using a bond-based peridynamic model, we are able to reproduce various characteristics of
dynamic brittle fracture observed in experiments; crack branching, crack-path instability …

We propose a computational method for a homogenized peridynamics description of fiber-
reinforced composites and we use it to simulate dynamic brittle fracture and damage in …

Numerical methods that are able to predict the failure of technical structures due to fracture
are important in many engineering applications. One of these approaches, the so-called …

In recent years, the depth, intensity and complexity of coal mining in China has continued to
increase. Meanwhile rockburst disasters, especially fault-slip bursts, have become even …

In this paper, we propose a new and efficient virtual element scheme for phase field
modeling of the dynamic fracture using an explicit time integration scheme. The explicit time …

The numerical modeling of dynamic failure mechanisms in solids due to fracture based on
sharp crack discontinuities suffers in situations with complex crack topologies and demands …