During the latest 20 years, the extended finite element method (XFEM) has been gradually
used to investigate the crack growth behaviors of different materials in combination with …

Ultrasonic high-frequency fatigue testing differs from conventional low-frequency fatigue
testing in strain rate and cyclic loading. Ultrasonic fatigue has a resonance frequency of …

Voro++ is a software library written in C++ for computing the Voronoi tessellation, a
technique in computational geometry that is widely used for analyzing systems of particles …

In this study, a two-dimensional multi-region framework, based on the use of the Virtual
Element Method (VEM), is developed for computational materials homogenization and …

A grain scale framework for thermo-elastic analysis and computational homogenization of
polycrystalline materials is proposed. The morphology of crystal aggregates is represented …

First-stage blades of gas turbines are elements positioned after the combustion chamber
and are responsible for extracting energy from high temperature and high pressure gas. One …

Texture, microstructure, and local grain neighbourhood contribute to the development of
localized stresses in polycrystals. For hexagonal close-packed materials, crystal's elastic …

With existing rail surface defects, third body mediums play an important role in the evolution
of Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF). This study investigates the effect of water mediums on the …

A grain-scale three-dimensional model for the analysis of fatigue intergranular degradation
in polycrystalline materials is presented. The material microstructure is explicitly represented …

This study presents an alternative boundary element method (BEM) formulation for the
cohesive crack propagation modelling in three‐dimensional structures. The proposed …