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 …

Phase-field method, as a powerful and popular approach to predict the mesoscale
microstructure evolution in various materials science, provides a bridge from atomic-scale …

Electrode particle cracking is one of the main phenomena driving battery capacity
degradation. Recent phase field fracture studies have investigated particle cracking …

We present a new theoretical and numerical framework for modelling mechanically-assisted
corrosion in elastic–plastic solids. Both pitting and stress corrosion cracking (SCC) can be …

We present a generalised phase field-based formulation for predicting fatigue crack growth
in metals. The theoretical framework aims at covering a wide range of material behaviour …

The phase field paradigm, in combination with a suitable variational structure, has opened a
path for using Griffith's energy balance to predict the fracture of solids. These so-called …

We present a generalised phase field formulation for predicting high-cycle fatigue in metals.
Different fatigue degradation functions are presented, together with new damage …

We present a new phase field framework for modelling fracture and fatigue in Shape
Memory Alloys (SMAs). The constitutive model captures the superelastic behaviour of SMAs …

Many modern engineering structures are composed of brittle heterogenous, or quasibrittle,
materials. These include concrete, composites, tough ceramics, rocks, cold asphalt mixtures …

We present a simple and robust implementation of the phase field fracture method in
Abaqus. Unlike previous works, only a user material (UMAT) subroutine is used. This is …