Publisher Summary An important failure mechanism in ductile metals and their alloys is by
growth and coalescence of microscopic voids. In structural materials, the voids nucleate at …

Over the last three decades, a number of researchers have used the gradient-enhanced
plasticity theory to model the microstructural material behavior, which is not able to be …

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

Our work on rate-independent systems was stimulated by our search for evolutionary
material models for shape-memory alloys that are flexible enough to encompass nonlinear …

The problem of a crack im**ing on an interface has been thoroughly investigated in the
last three decades due to its important role in the mechanics and physics of solids. In the …

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

Aiming to bridge the gap between damage and fracture mechanics for modeling localized
failure in solids, this paper addresses a novel geometrically regularized gradient-damage …

The global response of experimental uniaxial tests cannot be homogeneous, because of the
unavoidable presence of localized deformations, which is always preferential from an …

Practical Multiscaling covers fundamental modelling techniques aimed at bridging diverse
temporal and spatial scales ranging from the atomic level to a full-scale product level. It …

Nonlocal integral and/or gradient enhancements are widely used to resolve the mesh
dependency issue with standard continuum damage models. However, it is reported that …