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 …

Computational modeling of the initiation and propagation of complex fracture is central to the
discipline of engineering fracture mechanics. This review focuses on two promising …

Being able to model complex nucleation, propagation, branching and merging of cracks in
solids within a unified framework, the classical phase-field models for brittle fracture fail in …

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 …

In this paper, a novel 3D conjugated bond-pair-based peridynamic model is proposed to
simulate the initiation and propagation of cracks in brittle solids. In the proposed numerical …

In this paper, a phase-field model for ductile fracture previously proposed in the
kinematically linear regime is extended to the three-dimensional finite strain setting, and its …

Twenty years in since their introduction, it is now plain that the regularized formulations
dubbed as phase-field of the variational theory of brittle fracture of Francfort and Marigo …

We extend a phase-field/gradient damage formulation for cohesive fracture to the dynamic
case. The model is characterized by a regularized fracture energy that is linear in the …

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

A new phase method for predicting crack propagation path and mechanical response of
fiber reinforced composite laminate is proposed. A new three-dimensional (3D) crack …