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 …

This article reviews the effect of weak interfaces on crack propagation in rock and some
other analogous brittle materials from phenomenon to mechanism. In this review, a variety of …

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 …

Being able to seamlessly deal with complex crack patterns like branching, merging and
even fragmentation, the phase-field model, amongst several alternatives, is promising 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 …

In this paper, we propose a simple 2D and 3D crack evolution algorithm which avoids the
variable/DOF mapping within mesh adaptation algorithms. To this end, a new area/volume …

An anisotropic multi phase-field model is developed in this paper to investigate the
interaction between the crack propagation and interfacial damage in a fiber-reinforced …

Evolution of complex fracture patterns during electrochemical cycling for the polycrystalline
particulate cathode of lithium-ion batteries is found to be a primary reason towards capacity …