Extracting gas from shale rocks is one of the current engineering challenges but offers the
prospect of cheap gas. Part of the development of an effective engineering solution for shale …

This work presents a survey of computational methods for adhesive contact focusing on
general continuum mechanical models for attractive interactions between solids that are …

Cohesive zone (CZ) models have long been used by the scientific community to analyze the
progressive damage of materials and interfaces. In these models, non-linear relationships …

A procedure is proposed for the identification of spatial interfacial traction profiles of peel
loaded Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) samples, from which the corresponding traction …

Understanding and controlling early damage initiation and evolution are amongst the most
important challenges in nuclear power plants, occurring in ferritic, austenitic steels and …

During peeling of a soft elastic strip from a substrate, strong adhesional forces act locally
inside the peeling zone. It is shown here that when a standard contact finite element (FE) …

In recent years cohesive elements, coupled with a finite-element analysis (FEA) approach,
have become increasingly popular for simulating both delamination in composite materials …

Different from previous two-dimensional thermal weight function (TWF) method, a three-
dimensional (3D) TWF method is proposed for solving elliptical interface crack problems in …

In this paper recent developments for mesolevel modeling of failure in composite laminates
are reviewed. The complexity of failure processes in composite laminates presses the need …

Cohesive element (CE) is a well‐established finite element for fracture, widely used for the
modeling of delamination in composites. However, an extremely fine mesh is usually …