Ductile rupture in metals is a phenomenon that affects a wide range of applications from
forming of automotive body panels to failure of pressure vessels. The incipient stage …

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 …

This paper summarizes the submissions to a recently announced contact-mechanics
modeling challenge. The task was to solve a typical, albeit mathematically fully defined …

In this paper, a phase-field model for ductile fracture previously proposed in the
kinematically linear regime is extended to the three-dimensional finite strain setting, and its …

In this study, the ductile fracture of the alloy metal is analyzed. First, the key factors affecting
the initiation of ductile fracture are investigated. Then, a new uncoupled ductile fracture …

It has been 25 years since Sulsky and her coworkers developed the first version of the
material point method (MPM): a quasi particle method to solve continuum mechanics …

Metamaterials, otherwise known as architected or programmable materials, enable
designers to tailor mesoscale topology and shape to achieve unique material properties that …

One of the most confounding controversies in the ductile fracture community is the large
discrepancy between predicted and experimentally observed strain-to-failure values during …

Recent work in metal additive manufacturing (AM) suggests that mechanical properties may
vary with feature size; however, these studies do not provide a statistically robust description …

Nanoindentation based techniques were significantly enhanced by continuous stiffness
monitoring capabilities. In essence, this allowed to expand from point-wise discrete …