A review of phase-field models, fundamentals and their applications to composite laminates

TQ Bui, X Hu - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Advances in computational intelligence of polymer composite materials: machine learning assisted modeling, analysis and design

A Sharma, T Mukhopadhyay, SM Rangappa… - … Methods in Engineering, 2022 - Springer
The superior multi-functional properties of polymer composites have made them an ideal
choice for aerospace, automobile, marine, civil, and many other technologically demanding …

Effects of size and aggregation/agglomeration of nanoparticles on the interfacial/interphase properties and tensile strength of polymer nanocomposites

MA Ashraf, W Peng, Y Zare, KY Rhee - Nanoscale research letters, 2018 - Springer
In this study, several simple equations are suggested to investigate the effects of size and
density on the number, surface area, stiffening efficiency, and specific surface area of …

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 …

An efficient optimization approach for designing machine learning models based on genetic algorithm

KM Hamdia, X Zhuang, T Rabczuk - Neural Computing and Applications, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Machine learning (ML) methods have shown powerful performance in different
application. Nonetheless, designing ML models remains a challenge and requires further …

A review on advanced carbon-based thermal interface materials for electronic devices

J Khan, SA Momin, M Mariatti - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
Electronic devices play a vital role in our lives and are expected to play an even bigger role
in the future considering their immense contribution in every field. Current trends are drifting …

Free vibration, buckling and bending analyses of multilayer functionally graded graphene nanoplatelets reinforced composite plates using the NURBS formulation

CH Thai, AJM Ferreira, TD Tran, P Phung-Van - Composite Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, a NURBS formulation based on the four-variable refined plate theory (RPT) for
free vibration, buckling and static bending analyses of multilayer functionally graded …

[HTML][HTML] High strength, low flammability, and smoke suppression for epoxy thermoset enabled by a low-loading phosphorus-nitrogen-silicon compound

W Rao, P Zhao, C Yu, HB Zhao, YZ Wang - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In order to develop high-performance epoxy resins (EP), a novel phosphorus/nitrogen-
containing phenylsiloxane macromolecule (DP-PPD) has been synthesized as a multi …

Phase field modeling of fracture in fiber reinforced composite laminate

P Zhang, X Hu, TQ Bui, W Yao - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2019 - Elsevier
A new phase method for predicting crack propagation path and mechanical response of
fiber reinforced composite laminate is proposed. A new three-dimensional (3D) crack …

Modeling dynamic fracture of solids with a phase-field regularized cohesive zone model

VP Nguyen, JY Wu - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Being able to seamlessly deal with complex crack patterns like branching, merging and
even fragmentation, the phase-field model, amongst several alternatives, is promising in the …