Phase-field modeling of fracture

JY Wu, VP Nguyen, CT Nguyen, D Sutula… - Advances in applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

The phase field method for geometric moving interfaces and their numerical approximations

Q Du, X Feng - Handbook of numerical analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
This chapter surveys recent numerical advances in the phase field method for geometric
surface evolution and related geometric nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) …

Crack nucleation in variational phase-field models of brittle fracture

E Tanné, T Li, B Bourdin, JJ Marigo… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Phase-field models, sometimes referred to as gradient damage or smeared crack models,
are widely used methods for the numerical simulation of crack propagation in brittle …

A phase-field formulation for fracture in ductile materials: Finite deformation balance law derivation, plastic degradation, and stress triaxiality effects

MJ Borden, TJR Hughes, CM Landis, A Anvari… - Computer Methods in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Phase-field models have been a topic of much research in recent years. Results have
shown that these models are able to produce complex crack patterns in both two and three …

A primal-dual active set method and predictor-corrector mesh adaptivity for computing fracture propagation using a phase-field approach

T Heister, MF Wheeler, T Wick - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider phase-field based fracture propagation in elastic media. The main
purpose is the development of a robust and efficient numerical scheme. To enforce crack …

Pressure and fluid-driven fracture propagation in porous media using an adaptive finite element phase field model

S Lee, MF Wheeler, T Wick - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
This work presents phase field fracture modeling in heterogeneous porous media. We
develop robust and efficient numerical algorithms for pressure-driven and fluid-driven …

A phase-field method for propagating fluid-filled fractures coupled to a surrounding porous medium

A Mikelic, MF Wheeler, T Wick - Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, 2015 - SIAM
The recently introduced phase-field approach for pressurized fractures in a porous medium
offers various attractive computational features for numerical simulations of cracks such as …

On penalization in variational phase-field models of brittle fracture

T Gerasimov, L De Lorenzis - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Irreversible evolution is one of the central concepts as well as implementation challenges of
both the variational approach to fracture by Francfort and Marigo (1998) and its regularized …

[BOOK][B] Multiphysics phase-field fracture: modeling, adaptive discretizations, and solvers

T Wick - 2020 - books.google.com
This monograph is centered on mathematical modeling, innovative numerical algorithms
and adaptive concepts to deal with fracture phenomena in multiphysics. State-of-the-art …

Modified Newton methods for solving fully monolithic phase-field quasi-static brittle fracture propagation

T Wick - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …