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 …

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 …

Our goal in this work is to develop and compare modified Newton methods for fully
monolithic quasi-static brittle phase-field fracture propagation. In variational phase-field …

Fracture of composites consisting of isotropic matrix and anisotropic fibers is an essential
problem in many engineering applications. The computational simulation of such a fracture …

Brittle and ductile dynamic fracture in solids is a complex mechanical phenomenon which
attracted much attention from both engineers and scientists due to its technological interests …

Variationally consistent phase-field methods have been well established in the recent
decade. A wide range of applications to brittle and ductile fracture problems could already …

Phase-field methods to regularize sharp interfaces represent a well established technique
nowadays. In fracture mechanics, recent works have shown the capability of the method for …

In this work, we study the failure behavior of 3D-printed polymer composites undergoing
large deformations. Experimental results are compared to numerical simulations using the …

A crucial issue in phase-field models for brittle fracture is whether the functional that
describes the distributed crack converges to the functional of the discrete crack when the …

Although the phase field method has been widely used in the field of fracture, various
models exist, such as the second-order and fourth-order phase field model in the field of …