This document presents comprehensive historical accounts on the developments of finite
element methods (FEM) since 1941, with a specific emphasis on developments related to …

In this paper, we discuss various formats of gradient elasticity and their performance in static
and dynamic applications. Gradient elasticity theories provide extensions of the classical …

Gradient-enhanced damage models and phase-field models are seemingly very disparate
approaches to fracture. Whereas gradient-enhanced damage models find their roots in …

Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials is the first in-depth text
on the application of fracture mechanics to the analysis of failure in concrete structures. The …

Conventional continuum damage descriptions of material degeneration suffer from loss of
well‐posedness beyond a certain level of accumulated damage. As a consequence …

A class of phenomenological strain gradient plasticity theories is formulated to
accommodate more than one material length parameter. The objective is a generalization of …

Classical continuum models, ie continuum models that do not incorporate an internal length
scale, suffer from excessive mesh dependence when strain‐softening models are used in …

This paper presents the detailed implementation and computational aspects of a novel
second-order computational homogenization procedure, which is suitable for a multi-scale …

Continuous models of material degradation may cease to produced meaningful results in
the presence of high strain gradients. These gradients may occur for instance in the …

This book examines the experimental and theoretical aspects of bifurcation analysis as
applied to geomechanics. Coverage includes basic continuum mechanics for dry and fluid …