Innovations of advanced materials have been at the core of most engineering technologies,
devices and systems. Composite laminates in particular have been extensively employed 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 …

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 …

Fracture of composites consisting of isotropic matrix and anisotropic fibers is an essential
problem in many engineering applications. The computational simulation of such a fracture …

The failure process in a thermal barrier coating (TBC) system can be complicated due to
complex microstructure, material property mismatch, high temperature change, chemical …

Phase-Field (PF) methods of fracture have emerged as powerful modeling tools for
triggering fracture events in solids. These numerical techniques efficiently alleviate mesh …

We investigate variational phase-field formulations of anisotropic brittle fracture to model
zigzag crack patterns in cubic materials. Our objective is twofold:(i) to analytically derive and …

This work addresses an efficient Global–Local approach supplemented with predictor–
corrector adaptivity applied to anisotropic phase-field brittle fracture. The phase-field …

We propose a new phase-field damage formulation which takes into account anisotropic
damage evolution in solids. Such anisotropy projects itself in fracture energy values which …

This paper proposes a diffused approach to approximate failure at interfaces that physically
occupy negligible space compared to the bulk material. For an interface diffused over a …