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 …

FFT methods have become a fundamental tool in computational micromechanics since they
were first proposed in 1994 by Moulinec and Suquet for the homogenization of composites …

Tri‐post insulators in gas‐insulated transmission line (GIL) are usually fabricated with high
mass fraction of micron aluminum oxide (Al2O3), which will unavoidably settle under the …

Phase-field models have the advantage in that no geometric descriptions of cracks are
required, which means that crack coalescence and branching can be treated without …

In the past few decades, extensive research on concrete modeling to predict behavior, crack
propagation, microcrack coalescence by utilizing different approaches (fracture mechanics …

Phase-field damage models are able to describe crack nucleation as well as crack
propagation and coalescence without additional technicalities, because cracks are treated …

Hydraulic fracturing of tight subsurface formations has mainly been conducted using water.
Waterless hydraulic fracturing by CO2 may have advantages over fracturing by water. The …

The goal of the current work is to explore direction-dependent damage initiation and
propagation within an arbitrary anisotropic solid. In particular, we aim at develo** …

This paper presents a comparative study of the gradient-enhanced damage models (GED)
of Peerlings et al.(1996), Vandoren and Simone (2018) and the phase field damage/fracture …