Abstract The Concrete Capacity Design (CCD) method, which was first proposed in 1995,
has since been adopted in design standards worldwide because of its accuracy and …

The dissipated strain energy, representing a monotonically increasing state variable in
nonlinear fracture mechanics, can be used to develop an arc-length constraint equation for …

An automatic crack propagation modelling technique using polygon elements is presented.
A simple algorithm to generate a polygon mesh from a Delaunay triangulated mesh is …

A novel testing procedure for mixed mode crack propagation in concrete is presented: four
point bend of notched beams under the action of two independent force actuators. In …

A technique for modelling of arbitrary three‐dimensional dynamically propagating cracks in
elastic bodies by the Element‐Free Galerkin (EFG) method with explicit time integration is …

Abstract The Strong Discontinuity embedded Approach (SDA) has proved to be a robust
numerical method for simulating fracture of quasi-brittle materials such as glass and …

Numerical analyses of structures made of brittle materials such as glass or quasi-brittle
materials such as concrete or ceramics require robust models for the opening and …

The technique of bonding fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites to the tension face or
sides of reinforced concrete (RC) beams has become very popular for strengthening or …

The newly-developed scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) is able to calculate
stress intensity factors directly because the singularity in stress solutions at crack tips is …

This study proposes an algorithm of embedding cohesive elements in Abaqus and develops
the computer code to model 3D complex crack propagation in quasi-brittle materials in a …