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 …

Mechanical properties of materials and associated engineered components are controlled
by the material structure at various lengths and time scales. As materials are being further …

Evolution of complex fracture patterns during electrochemical cycling for the polycrystalline
particulate cathode of lithium-ion batteries is found to be a primary reason towards capacity …

The brittle-ductile transition (BDT) of tungsten depends heavily on temperature-dependent
dislocation mobility. To well understand the underlying mechanism of tungsten fracture …

In this paper, crack growth in orthotropic materials subjected to dynamic loading is
numerically studied using an adaptive phase-field method. The study starts with a coarse …

Phase-field damage models are able to describe crack nucleation as well as crack
propagation and coalescence without additional technicalities, because cracks are treated …

A zone-based crack retardation model that responds to single cycle overloads is applied to a
phase field fatigue framework. Fatigue crack growth is incorporated through the degradation …

We propose a new phase-field damage formulation which takes into account anisotropic
damage evolution in solids. Such anisotropy projects itself in fracture energy values which …

Cerium and magnesium strengthened aluminum alloys, or Al-Ce-Mg, is a recently
developed alloy family that exhibits good mechanical properties at elevated temperatures …

This work investigates the hydrogen embrittlement (HE) behavior of Nickel-201 alloy using
experimental and numerical approaches. In experimentation, the effect of electrochemical …