We address the simulation of dynamic crack propagation in brittle materials using a
regularized phase-field description, which can also be interpreted as a damage-gradient …

A powerful semi-analytical method is developed to investigate the impact of tough inclusions
on crack paths and the resulting effective fracture properties. Using a perturbative approach …

When a crack interacts with material heterogeneities, its front distorts and adopts complex
tortuous configurations that are reminiscent of the energy barriers encountered during crack …

This paper addresses the fracture behaviour of bonded composite plates featuring a kissing
bond along the crack growth path. Double cantilever beam (DCB) experiments are carried …

Cracks develop intricate patterns on the surfaces that they create. As faceted, fracture
surfaces are commonly formed by slow tensile cracks in both crystalline and amorphous …

We investigate experimentally and theoretically the dynamics of a crack front during the
microinstabilities taking place in heterogeneous materials between two successive …

Traditional computational approaches in simulating crack propagation in perfectly brittle
materials rely on the estimate of stress intensity factors along the rupture front. This proves …

While we fundamentally understand the dynamics of simple cracks propagating in brittle
solids within perfect (homogeneous) materials, we do not understand how paths of moving …

Cracks in brittle materials produce two types of generic surface structures: facets at low
velocities and microbranches at higher ones. Here we observe a transition from faceting to …

Multiphase heterogeneity significantly affects mechanical and micro-cracking properties of
geomaterials. Heterogeneity representations of geomaterials, however, can bring out fatal …