Strain gradient plasticity has been the subject of extensive research in the past 40 years in
order to model size effects in metal plasticity, on the one hand, and provide finite width shear …

Variationally consistent phase-field methods have been well established in the recent
decade. A wide range of applications to brittle and ductile fracture problems could already …

This study aims to establish a strategy for bridging the microstructure and mechanical
properties of fine-grain-structured dual-phase steel. A complete workflow is built up …

Predicting the performances of a manufactured part is extremely important, especially for
industries in which there is almost no room for uncertainties, such as aeronautical or …

A strain gradient crystal plasticity theory is presented that accounts for the resistance of grain
boundaries against plastic flow based on an interface yield condition. This theory …

An analytical solution of the problem of the propagation of a Lüders band in an isotropic
strain gradient plasticity medium is provided based on a softening–hardening constitutive …

Two recently proposed Helmholtz free energy potentials including the full dislocation density
tensor as an argument within the framework of strain gradient plasticity are used to predict …

This work presents a computational nonlinear homogenization approach, the starting point
of which is a model order reduction method based on data-clustering. To this end, the …

The field of continuum damage mechanics addresses mathematical models for the
degradation of the mechanical properties of engineering materials, in particular for softening …

A micromorphic single crystal plasticity model is formulated at finite deformations as an
extension of Mandel's classical theory based on a multiplicative decomposition of the …