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 …

Despite great efforts in capturing the damage evolution law in multiscale approaches in
damage mechanics, much less attention has been paid to the conversion from geometric …

This paper presents a hybrid method for modeling hydraulic fracture propagation in an
unconventional shale formation with frictional and cemented natural fractures. The hybrid …

Despite the popularity in modeling complex and arbitrary crack configurations in solids,
phase-field damage models suffer from burdensome computational cost. This issue arises …

Being able to seamlessly deal with complex crack patterns like branching, merging and
even fragmentation, phase-field models (PFMs) are promising in the computational …

Despite the popularity of phase-field models for fracture in purely mechanical problems, their
application to the modeling of fracture in multi-physics problems is much less reported. This …

Despite the versatility in modeling complex crack configurations, phase-field damage
models for fracture usually count only on in-house codes, greatly restricting their potential …

One major merit of phase-field models for fracture is that cracks nucleation, propagation,
branching, merging, coalescence and even fragmentation, etc., can be accounted for …

Structural systems are consistently encountering the variabilities in material properties,
undesirable defects and loading environments, which may potentially shorten their designed …