The purpose of the present review article is twofold:

The past 20 years have seen substantial work on the modeling of ductile damage and
fracture. Several factors explain this interest.(i) There is a growing demand to provide tools …

The representative volume element (RVE) plays a central role in the mechanics and physics
of random heterogeneous materials with a view to predicting their effective properties. A …

A unifying thermomechanical framework is presented that reconciles several classes of
gradient elastoviscoplasticity and damage models proposed in the literature during the last …

The PLEIADES software environment is devoted to the thermomechanical simulation of
nuclear fuel elements behaviour under irradiation. This platform is co-developed in the …

A three-dimensional damage model with induced damage anisotropy is proposed for quasi-
brittle materials such as concrete. The thermodynamics framework is used, considering then …

Three-dimensional confocal images of two materials A and B from food industry made of two
constituents with highly contrasted properties, having the same volume fraction but different …

A representative volume element (RVE) is related to the domain size of a microstructure
providing a “good” statistical representation of typical material properties. The size of an …

Recent advances in analytical and computational modelling frameworks to describe the
mechanics of materials on scales ranging from the atomistic, through the microstructure or …

This book introduces the finite element method applied to the resolution of industrial heat
transfer problems. Starting from steady conduction, the method is gradually extended to …