Lifeboats have been serving as an essential maritime life-saving equipment in the case of
emergency situations. In recent decades, much effort has been devoted to investigating …

Interfaces play a critical role in modern structures, where integrating multiple materials and
components is essential to achieve specific functions. Enhancing the mechanical …

The cohesive element (CE) has been widely used to model delamination in laminated
composites. The penalty stiffness, interfacial strength and fracture toughness are three CE …

We formulate a modified phase-field model for cohesive interface failure in quasi-brittle
solids. Our model has two novel features:(i) a traction–separation-damage law for damage …

In this study, virtual crack closure technique (VCCT) and extended finite element method
(XFEM) are coupled to each other as XFEM-VCCT approach to simulate mode I fatigue …

This paper presents an extension of the semi-discrete damage model (SD2M)(Nguyen and
Waas, 2020a, Nguyen and Waas, 2020b), implemented using the finite element (FE) …

Progressive damages in the open-hole compression (OHC) tests of composite laminates
were experimentally and numerically studied. In the experiment, the failure mechanisms …

The intralaminar crack propagation of unidirectional glass fiber reinforced polymer
composite (GFRP) laminate has been investigated by quasi-static tensile/compression …

Countersunk holes are used in bolted joints for creating non-protruding smooth surfaces. As
a first step towards a detailed progressive damage and failure analysis of bolted joint …

Thin-ply laminated composites have recently gained increasing attention in the aerospace
engineering field, due to enhanced design possibilities and positive size effects with regard …