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 …

Implementation of the hybrid discontinuous Galerkin/cohesive zone model method, which is
a (volumetric) locking free single field yet highly scalable method for nonlinear fracture …

Multi-methodological approaches combining quantum-mechanical and/or atomistic
simulations with continuum methods have become increasingly important when addressing …

We have determined the influence of carbon on mechanical properties such as grain
boundary energy, work of separation (WoS) and fracture strength of the Σ5 (3 1 0)[0 0 1] …

Object of the paper is the simulation of reinforced concrete bars behaviour, accounting for
crack opening and concrete-rebar slippage. A macro beam element with a single uniform …

An elastic body weakened by small cracks is considered in the framework of unilateral
variational problems in linearized elasticity. The frictionless contact conditions are …

In this paper we consider the control of cracks in elastic bodies with rigid inclusion. We first
describe the problem statement, provide an equivalent formulation as a variational …

Failure of many brittle materials and structures can be modeled using interface‐oriented
finite elements combined with intrinsic cohesive zone models. The discontinuous Galerkin …

Interfacial cracking occurs in many engineering problems such as delamination in
composite laminates, matrix/interface debonding in fibre reinforced composites etc …

A cohesive zone model implemented in an augmented Lagrangian functional is used for
simulation of meso-scale fracture problems in this paper. The method originally developed …