Phase-Field Modeling of Damage Fracture

A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 531

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Mechanics of Functional Materials Division, Department of Materials Science, TU Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Straße 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
Interests: computational mechanics and multiphysics; phase-field modeling of damage and fracture; fracture in multiphysics environment; energy materials; chemo-mechanical behavior of interface and bulk

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Mechanics of Functional Materials Division, Department of Materials Science, TU Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Straße 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
Interests: computational mechanics and cultiphysics; phase-field modeling of damage and fracture; fracture in multiphysics environment; energy materials; chemo-mechanical behavior of interface and bulk
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Dear Colleagues,

The phase-field fracture model, which is among smeared approaches for damage, has shown great potential in predicting arbitrary crack paths in solids. Nevertheless, further investigations are required to explore the features of this method, especially when it comes to a new generation of materials and new environments. In this Special Issue, we would like to invite you to share your findings in application of the PF fracture model in one or more of the following directions: modeling brittle, cohesive, and ductile fractures; fatigue and lifetime prediction; modeling of interphase; anisotropic and mixed-mode fracture in solids (e.g., architecture materials, fibre-reinforced composites, crystalline materials, etc.); and multiphysics environment (e.g., considering chemical reaction and/or thermal influence, martensite phase transformation, and hydraulic fracturing, etc.). Moreover, discussion on new multiscaling techniques, including the PF fracture; fundamental studies on the concept of internal length scale and experimental calibration of the model; and numerical treatment and implementations (novel solvers, machine learning techniques for speedup, etc.) are highly encouraged. Finally, qualitative, and quantitative comparisons of the PF fracture against other methodology, such as gradient extended damage models (GED), extended FEM, peridynamics, Eigenerosion, mixed FEM, etc. is of great interest.

Dr. Shahed Rezaei
Dr. Behnam Sobhaniaragh
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Keywords

  • brittle, cohesive, and ductile fracture
  • anisotropic fracture
  • mode-mixity of fracture
  • damage in multiphysics environment
  • experimental calibration
  • numerical treatment
  • performance comparison

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