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 …

Publisher Summary An important failure mechanism in ductile metals and their alloys is by
growth and coalescence of microscopic voids. In structural materials, the voids nucleate at …

Being able to model complex nucleation, propagation, branching and merging of cracks in
solids within a unified framework, the classical phase-field models for brittle fracture fail in …

Despite the popularity in modeling complex and arbitrary crack configurations in solids,
phase-field damage models suffer from burdensome computational cost. This issue arises …

Fracture is one of the pressing issues in modeling civil engineering materials like con crete,
mortar, brick, rock and clay. The pursuit of genuine fracture properties has posed a …

Ket qualitative features of solutions exhibiting strong discontinuities in rate-independent
inelastic solids are identified and exploited in the design of a new class of finite element …

A phase-field regularized cohesive zone model (CZM) was recently proposed for both brittle
fracture and cohesive failure within the framework of the unified phase-field damage theory …

One major merit of phase-field models for fracture is that cracks nucleation, propagation,
branching, merging, coalescence and even fragmentation, etc., can be accounted for …

Despite the popularity of phase-field models for fracture in purely mechanical problems, their
application to the modeling of fracture in multi-physics problems is much less reported. This …

The dissipated strain energy, representing a monotonically increasing state variable in
nonlinear fracture mechanics, can be used to develop an arc-length constraint equation for …