One of the first courses I taught at Stanford was Advanced Soil Mechanics. The course title
was accurate in the beginning, but the contents gradually became more and more about …

The paper proposes some new computational strategies for affordably solving multiscale
fracture problems through a FE 2 approach. To take into account the mechanical effects …

A new approach to two-scale modeling of propagating fracture, based on computational
homogenization (FE 2), is presented. The specific features of the approach are:(a) a …

This contribution presents the theoretical foundations of a Failure-Oriented Multi-scale
variational Formulation (FOMF) for modeling heterogeneous softening-based materials …

The importance of crack propagation in the structural behaviour of concrete and masonry
structures has led to the development of a wide range of finite element methods for crack …

The work presents two new numerical techniques devised for modeling propagating
material failure, ie cracks in fracture mechanics or slip-lines in soil mechanics. The first one …

We present a finite deformation generalization of the finite thickness embedded discontinuity
formulation presented in our previous paper [AE Huespe, A. Needleman, J. Oliver, PJ …

Tracking algorithms are used to predict crack paths in structures modeled with the finite
element method, in such a way that the paths do not depend on the selected mesh. For …

We develop a computational framework that captures the microfracture processes leading to
shear band bifurcation in porous crystalline rocks. The framework consists of computational …

The work focuses on the connections of strain localization modeling of material failure and
discrete fracture mechanics. It is an attempt to give an answer to the old question of whether …