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 …

In this work, a critical comparison between three different numerical approaches for the
computational modelling of quasi-brittle structural failure is presented. Among the many …

The compressive and tensile strength of high-performance concrete (HPC) is a highly
nonlinear function of its constituents. The significance of expert frameworks for predicting the …

The phase-field model (PFM) represents the crack geometry in a diffusive way without
introducing sharp discontinuities. This feature enables PFM to effectively model crack …

In the past two decades, meshfree methods have emerged into a new class of computational
methods with considerable success. In addition, a significant amount of progress has been …

In this paper, we develop a dual‐horizon peridynamics (DH‐PD) formulation that naturally
includes varying horizon sizes and completely solves the 'ghost force'issue. Therefore, the …

We present a phase field model (PFM) for simulating complex crack patterns including crack
propagation, branching and coalescence in rock. The phase field model is implemented in …

This paper proposes a phase field model for fracture in poroelastic media. The porous
medium is modeled based on the classical Biot poroelasticity theory and the fracture …

A phase field model for fluid-driven dynamic crack propagation in poroelastic media is
proposed. Therefore, classical Biot poroelasticity theory is applied in the porous medium …

In this paper, we propose an explicit phase field model for dynamic brittle fracture. The
mechanical field is integrated with a Verlet-velocity scheme, while the phase field is …