Delamination is a major failure mode in laminated composites and has received much
research attention. A huge amount of literature has been published on this subject, resulting …

A critical overview of past research on the interaction integral (I-integral) method is
presented. The I-integral is the two-state mutual energy release rate decided by a …

A brief review of multifield variational principles for the formulation of finite element methods
in solid mechanics and an account of the evolution of hybrid/mixed finite element methods …

The extended finite element method (XFEM) is further improved for fracture analysis of
composite laminates containing interlaminar delaminations. New set of bimaterial …

This paper presents a successful implementation of the virtual crack closure integral method
to calculate the stress intensity factors of an interfacial crack. The present method would …

Various boundary element method (BEM) based approaches to solve crack problems are
discussed. The displacement method, J-integral method and the modified crack closure …

Solder joints in electronic packages undergo thermo-mechanical cycling, resulting in
nucleation of micro-cracks, especially at the solder/bond-pad interface, which may lead to …

The extended finite element method is adopted for fracture analysis of delamination
problems in fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforced beams. In this method, the stress …

Nondimensional parameters that are needed to describe the stress field in an anisotropic
bimaterial with tractions prescribed on its boundary are investigated. Two real matrices …

In this paper, the detailed two-dimensional infinite element method (IEM) formulation with
infinite element (IE)–finite element (FE) coupling scheme for investigating mode I stress …