Dear Colleagues,

Material failure that would lead to structural integrity reduction and affect usage life still remains one of the major concerns in various engineering fields. Failure patterns arising in solids and structures may involve brittle cracking, fatigue damage, fragmentation, and progressive interfacial cracks, etc. Usually, two or more failure patterns appear during material degradation, and the interaction between them makes the problems more complicated. In recent decades, much interest has been devoted to failure analysis by means of numerical modeling. In this regard, many numerical algorithms have been proposed and used to contribute to the modeling of failure behavior and the understanding of failure mechanisms. This Special Issue aims to collect contributions addressing recent advances in numerical algorithms and applications related to material failure modeling of solids and structures.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Novel concepts of numerical algorithms for failure modeling;
• Discrete crack approaches, e.g., Eigenerosion method, cohesive zone models, extended finite element methods, and discontinuous Galerkin-based models;
• Regularized crack approaches, e.g., phase field models, non-local models, and gradient-enhanced models;
• Mesh-free-based algorithms, e.g., discrete element methods, material point methods, and reproducing kernel particle methods;
• Coupling methods and related adaptive algorithms, e.g., (adaptive) combined discrete/finite element methods, and (adaptive) coupling material point and finite element methods;
• Novel applications of the existing numerical methods;
• Revealing failure mechanisms using existing numerical methods

Prof. Tinh Quoc Bui
Dr. Shunhua Chen
Dr. Jose L. Curiel-Sosa
Prof. Wei Gao
Guest Editors

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• material failure
• numerical modeling
• failure behavior
• failure mechanisms
• solids
• composite structures