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 …

As a clean fossil fuel with great reserves, natural gas hydrate (NGH) is widely regarded as
an important future alternative energy source. NGH is widely distributed in onshore tundra …

Rigorous coupling of fracture–porous medium fluid flow and topologically complex fracture
propagation is of great scientific interest in geotechnical and biomechanical applications. In …

The failure behavior of geological materials depends heavily on confining pressure and
strain rate. Under a relatively low confining pressure, these materials tend to fail by brittle …

The phase-field model has been attracting considerable attention due to its capability of
capturing complex crack propagations without mesh dependence. However, its validation …

Our goal in this work is to develop and compare modified Newton methods for fully
monolithic quasi-static brittle phase-field fracture propagation. In variational phase-field …

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 work addresses an efficient low order virtual element method (VEM) for the phase-field
modeling of isotropic brittle fracture. Virtual elements were introduced in the last decade and …

A new framework based on the phase field method is developed to model the fatigue
fracture behavior of fiber-reinforced composite laminates. The growth path of matrix cracks …