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This paper proposes a thermodynamically consistent phase-field damage model for viscoelastic materials. Suitable free-energy and pseudo-potentials of dissipation are developed to build a model leading to a stress-strain relation, under the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Thaís C. da Costa Haveroth , Geovane A. Haveroth , Marco L. Bittencourt , José L. Boldrini

The main aim of this three-part work is to provide a unified consistent framework for the phase-field modeling of cohesive fracture. In this first paper we establish the mathematical foundation of a cohesive phase-field model by proving a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Roberto Alessi , Francesco Colasanto , Matteo Focardi

The Lip-field approach is a new way to regularize softening material models. It has already been tested in 1D quasistatic and 2D quasistatic: this paper extends it to 1D dynamics, on the challenging problem of dynamic fragmentation. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Nicolas Moës , Benoît Lé , Andrew Stershic

A rigorous unified perspective of cohesive zone models is presented, including and comparing potential-based and non potential-based formulations, and encompassing known examples studied in literature. The main novelty of the work consists…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Francesco Freddi , Filippo Riva

We present a new phase-field model of solidification which allows efficient computations in the regime when interface kinetic effects dominate over capillary effects. The asymptotic analysis required to relate the parameters in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kalin Vetsigian , Nigel Goldenfeld

We present a new multiphase-field theory for describing pattern formation in multi-domain and/or multi-component systems. The construction of the free energy functional and the dynamic equations is based on criteria that ensure mathematical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-09 Gyula I. Toth , Tamas Pusztai , Laszlo Granasy

The interface plays a critical role in the mechanical properties of composites. In the present work, a novel phase-field based cohesive zone model (CZM) is proposed for the cracking simulation. The competition and interaction between the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-23 Peiliang Bian , Hai Qing

Heterostructured (HS) materials exhibit excellent mechanical properties, combining high strength and significant ductility. Hetero-deformation-induced (HDI) hardening and strain de-localization are key to their strength-ductility synergy.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-03 Yukai Xiong , Jianfeng Zhao , Jinling Liu , Jie Wang , Michael Zaiser , Xu Zhang

The formal sharp-interface asymptotics in a degenerate Cahn-Hilliard model for viscoelastic phase separation with cross-diffusive coupling to a bulk stress variable are shown to lead to non-local lower-order counterparts of the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Katharina Hopf , John King , Andreas Münch , Barbara Wagner

We investigate phase-field modeling of brittle fracture in a one-dimensional bar featuring a continuous variation of elastic and/or fracture properties along its axis. Our main goal is to quantitatively assess how the heterogeneity in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Francesco Vicentini , Pietro Carrara , Laura De Lorenzis

The morphogenesis of cells and tissues involves an interplay between chemical signals and active forces on their surrounding surface layers. The complex interaction of hydrodynamics and material flows on such active surfaces leads to…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-30 Sebastian Aland , Claudia Wohlgemuth

The Phase-Field Method (PFM) is employed to simulate two-phase flows with the fully-coupled Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) equations governing the temporal evolution. The methodology minimizes the total energy functional, accounting for…

A novel phase-field for ductile fracture model is presented. The model is developed within a consistent variational framework in the context of finite-deformation kinematics. A novel coalescence dissipation introduces a new coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-24 Tianchen Hu , Brandon Talamini , Andrew J. Stershic , Michael R. Tupek , John E. Dolbow

This paper presents a modeling framework to describe the driving mechanisms of cyclic failure in brittle and ductile materials, including cyclic plasticity and fatigue crack growth. A variational model is devised using the energetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Jacinto Ulloa , Jef Wambacq , Roberto Alessi , Geert Degrande , Stijn François

We consider the dynamics and kinetic roughening of wetting fronts in the case of forced wetting driven by a constant mass flux into a 2D disordered medium. We employ a coarse-grained phase field model with local conservation of density,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Laurila , C. Tong , I. Huopaniemi , S. Majaniemi , T. Ala-Nissila

A consistent treatment of the coupling of surface energy and elasticity within the multi-phase- field framework is presented. The model accurately reproduces stress distribution in a number of analytically tractable, yet non-trivial, cases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Raphael Schiedung , Ingo Steinbach , Fathollah Varnik

In this paper, we analytically investigate multi-component Cahn-Hilliard and Allen-Cahn systems which are coupled with elasticity and uni-directional damage processes. The free energy of the system is of the form…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-23 Christian Heinemann , Christiane Kraus

A numerical framework for simulating progressive failure under high-cycle fatigue loading is validated against experiments of composite quasi-isotropic open-hole laminates. Transverse matrix cracking and delamination are modeled with a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-06 P. Hofman , F. P. van der Meer , L. J. Sluys

A novel numerical approach to analyze the mechanical behavior within composite materials including the inelastic regime up to final failure is presented. Therefore, a second-gradient theory is combined with phase-field methods to fracture.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Maik Dittman , Jonathan Schult , Felix Schmidt , Christian Hesch

A regularized damage model is considered named "Graded damage" in which the gradient enhancement has the form of an explicit bound for the spatial gradient of damage. The key features of the proposed approach are demonstrated by computing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Nunziante Valoroso