Phase-field modeling of fracture

JY Wu, VP Nguyen, CT Nguyen, D Sutula… - Advances in applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

A comparative review of XFEM, mixed FEM and phase-field models for quasi-brittle cracking

M Cervera, GB Barbat, M Chiumenti, JY Wu - Archives of Computational …, 2022 - Springer
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 …

A unified phase-field theory for the mechanics of damage and quasi-brittle failure

JY Wu - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2017 - Elsevier
Being one of the most promising candidates for the modeling of localized failure in solids, so
far the phase-field method has been applied only to brittle fracture with very few exceptions …

A length scale insensitive phase-field damage model for brittle fracture

JY Wu, VP Nguyen - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

A phase-field formulation for fracture in ductile materials: Finite deformation balance law derivation, plastic degradation, and stress triaxiality effects

MJ Borden, TJR Hughes, CM Landis, A Anvari… - Computer Methods in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Phase-field models have been a topic of much research in recent years. Results have
shown that these models are able to produce complex crack patterns in both two and three …

Phase field modeling of fracture in multi-physics problems. Part II. Coupled brittle-to-ductile failure criteria and crack propagation in thermo-elastic–plastic solids

C Miehe, M Hofacker, LM Schänzel… - Computer Methods in …, 2015 - Elsevier
This work presents a generalization of recently developed continuum phase field models
from brittle to ductile fracture coupled with thermo-plasticity at finite strains. It uses a …

2D and 3D Abaqus implementation of a robust staggered phase-field solution for modeling brittle fracture

G Molnár, A Gravouil - Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 2017 - Elsevier
In order to model brittle fracture, we have implemented a two and three dimensional phase-
field method in the commercial finite element code Abaqus/Standard. The method is based …

Phase field modeling of fracture in multi-physics problems. Part III. Crack driving forces in hydro-poro-elasticity and hydraulic fracturing of fluid-saturated porous media

C Miehe, S Mauthe - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The prediction of fluid-and moisture-driven crack propagation in deforming porous media
has achieved increasing interest in recent years, in particular with regard to the modeling of …

Phase field modeling of fracture in anisotropic brittle solids

S Teichtmeister, D Kienle, F Aldakheel… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
A phase field model of fracture that accounts for anisotropic material behavior at small and
large deformations is outlined within this work. Most existing fracture phase field models …

A comparative review of peridynamics and phase-field models for engineering fracture mechanics

P Diehl, R Lipton, T Wick, M Tyagi - Computational Mechanics, 2022 - Springer
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 …