The brittle fracture pattern in plastics associated with low toughness performance have a
negative effect on their performance especially for long-term and specialized applications …

Nickel electrodeposition coatings are prone to cracking during wear and indentation which
limits their application in different industries. This paper aims to study the effect of adding …

Materials failure in 3D still poses basic challenges. We study 3D brittle crack dynamics using
a phase-field approach, where Gaussian quenched disorder in the fracture energy is …

This paper addresses the question of the homogenization of fracture properties for three-
dimensional disordered brittle solids. The effective toughness, identified as the minimum …

Stress corrosion cracking is a well-known phenomenon in oxide glasses. However, how
amorphous phase separation (APS) alters stress corrosion cracking, and the overall …

The objective of this study is to assess the variational definition of the effective fracture
energy of a heterogeneous brittle material recently proposed by Schneider (2020) based on …

The onset of frictional motion is mediated by the dynamic propagation of a rupture front,
analogous to a shear crack. The rupture front nucleates quasi-statically in a localized region …

A new approach to defining the effective fracture toughness for heterogeneous materials is
proposed. This temporal averaging approach is process dependent, incorporating the crack …

We investigate the dynamic fracture of heterogeneous materials experimentally by
measuring displacement fields as a rupture propagates through a periodic array of obstacles …

This paper presents an algorithm based on asymptotic methods for computing the effective
ultimate and high cyclic fatigue strength of heterogeneous periodic plates, shells, and …