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 …

Fracture is one of the most commonly encountered failure modes of engineering materials
and structures. Prevention of cracking-induced failure is, therefore, a major concern in …

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 …

Computational modeling of the initiation and propagation of complex fracture is central to the
discipline of engineering fracture mechanics. This review focuses on two promising …

Being able to seamlessly deal with complex crack patterns like branching, merging and
even fragmentation, phase-field models (PFMs) are promising in the computational …

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 …

Despite the popularity in modeling complex and arbitrary crack configurations in solids,
phase-field damage models suffer from burdensome computational cost. This issue arises …

Despite the versatility in modeling complex crack configurations, phase-field damage
models for fracture usually count only on in-house codes, greatly restricting their potential …

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 …

Phase-field method, as a powerful and popular approach to predict the mesoscale
microstructure evolution in various materials science, provides a bridge from atomic-scale …