Motivated by the successful implementation of the phase-field method (PFM) to simulate
complicated fracture patterns at moderate computational costs in solid materials, many …

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 …

Multi-cluster fracturing in horizontal wells is an important stimulation technology for
unconventional tight reservoirs. The interference among multiple simultaneously growing …

Glutenite is an important unconventional tight oil and gas reservoir. Due to the glutenite
formation with strong heterogeneity and variable lithology which contains a large number of …

A propagating fluid driven fracture in a rock mass is expected to interact with geological
interfaces on a wide variety of length scales. The vertical growth of hydraulic fractures in …

The critical energy release rate of the crack is always set as an inherent material property
(constant value) in the phase-field method (PFM) to depict the compression-shear and …

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 …

In this paper, an adaptive phase-field approach is proposed for three-dimensional fracture
modeling in brittle materials. The scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) is used to …

The brittle-ductile transition (BDT) of tungsten depends heavily on temperature-dependent
dislocation mobility. To well understand the underlying mechanism of tungsten fracture …

Cracking in quasi-brittle geomaterials is a complex mechanical phenomenon, driven by
various dissipation mechanisms across multiple length scales. While some recent promising …