Glasses are materials that lack a crystalline microstructure and long‐range atomic order.
Instead, they feature heterogeneity and disorder on superstructural scales, which have …

The fracture of highly deformable soft materials is of great practical importance in a wide
range of technological applications, emerging in fields such as soft robotics, stretchable …

Brittle materials fail by means of rapid cracks. Classical fracture mechanics describes the
motion of tensile cracks that dissipate released elastic energy within a point-like zone at their …

Bringing together basic ideas, classical theories, recent experimental and theoretical
aspects, this book explains desiccation cracks from simple, easily-comprehensible cases to …

We address the simulation of dynamic crack propagation in brittle materials using a
regularized phase-field description, which can also be interpreted as a damage-gradient …

Fracture is a fundamental mechanism of materials failure. Propagating cracks can exhibit a
rich dynamical behavior controlled by a subtle interplay between microscopic failure …

We review analytical solutions for the asymptotic deformation and stress fields near the tip of
a crack in soft elastic solids. These solutions are based on finite strain elastostatics and …

In this work, we have found that a prenotched double-network (DN) hydrogel, when
subjected to tensile loading in a pure-shear geometry, exhibits intriguing stick–slip crack …

In a stressed body, crack propagation is the main vehicle for material failure. Cracks create
large stress amplification at their tips, leading to large material deformation. The material …

The relationship between composition, structure, and resistance to fracture remains poorly
understood. Here, based on molecular dynamics simulations, we report that sodium silicate …