Under a pure tensile loading, cracks in brittle, isotropic, and homogeneous materials often
propagate such that pure mode I kinematics are maintained at the crack tip. However …

During the last several decades, the finite element method has evolved from a linear
structural analysis procedure to a general technique for solving non-linear, transient, partial …

The numerical implementation of advanced plastic damage models has been challenging
due to the diverse computational difficulties caused by material nonlinearity. In this study …

The progressive damage analysis of fiber-reinforced composite materials is a challenging
task, especially when complicated cracking scenarios arise due to the onset and …

Soft materials that can deform under external stimuli offer great opportunities for the
development of new structural applications such as sensor-actuator systems, soft robots or …

Collagen fibers within the annulus fibrosus (AF) lamellae are unidirectionally aligned with
alternating orientations between adjacent layers. AF constitutive models often combine two …

The accurate prediction of transmural stresses in arterial walls requires on the one hand
robust and efficient numerical schemes for the solution of boundary value problems …

In this paper, a novel chemo-mechanical model is proposed for the description of the stretch-
dependent chemical processes known as Bayliss effect and their impact on the active …

We propose two fractional-order models for uniaxial large strains and visco-elasto-plastic
behavior of materials in structural analysis. Fractional modeling seamlessly interpolates …

In this paper we propose a numerical scheme for the calculation of stresses and
corresponding consistent tangent moduli for hyperelastic material models, which are derived …