One of the fundamental aspects in cohesive zone modeling is the definition of the traction-
separation relationship across fracture surfaces, which approximates the nonlinear fracture …

Inspired by the unique and efficient wound healing processes in biological systems, several
approaches to develop synthetic polymers that can repair themselves with complete, or …

The ballasless track has been massively applied nowadays, while the interface damage
evolution of ballastless tracks is still rarely investigated. This work aims to investigate the …

Although fatigue is by far the most common mode of failure of structural materials,
mechanistic understanding is still lacking. For example, the fundamental Paris law which …

This paper presents a thorough analysis of potential-based and non-potential-based
cohesive zone models (CZMs) under conditions of mixed-mode separation and mixed-mode …

The cyclic stress responses and microstructure analyses were carried out of short-term aged
Inconel 750H under high temperature low cycle fatigue tests, the influence of strain …

A cohesive zone-based constitutive model, originally developed to model fracture, is
extended to include a healing variable to simulate crack healing processes and thus …

Structures are subjected to cyclic loads that can vary in direction and magnitude, causing
constant amplitude mode I simulations to be too simplistic. This study presents a new …

Experimental studies in a hydrogenous environment indicate that hydrogen leads to a
modification of deformation and damage mechanisms at the fatigue crack tip in metals …

A procedure to predict fatigue crack growth in bonded joints is developed in this work within
the framework of cohesive zone modelling and finite element analysis. The idea is to link the …