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Phase field models are promising to tackle various fracture problems where a diffusive crack is introduced and modelled using the phase variable. Owing to the non-convexity of the energy functional, the derived partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Chenyi Luo

A Darcy-Cahn-Hilliard model coupled with damage is developed to describe multiphase-flow and fluid-driven fracturing in porous media. The model is motivated by recent experimental observations in Hele-Shaw cells of the fluid-driven…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-30 Alexandre Guével , Yue Meng , Christian Peco , Ruben Juanes , John E. Dolbow

We present a continuum theory to describe elastically induced phase transitions between coherent solid phases. In the limit of vanishing elastic constants in one of the phases, the model can be used to describe fracture on the basis of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Spatschek , C. Mueller-Gugenberger , E. Brener , B. Nestler

Variational phase-field models of brittle fracture are powerful tools for studying Griffith-type crack propagation in complex scenarios. However, as approximations of Griffith's theory-which does not incorporate a strength criterion-these…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Francesco Vicentini , Jonas Heinzmann , Pietro Carrara , Laura De Lorenzis

The favored phase field method (PFM) has encountered challenges in the finite strain fracture modeling of nearly or truly incompressible hyperelastic materials. We identified that the underlying cause lies in the innate contradiction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Fucheng Tian , Jun Zeng , Mengnan Zhang , Liangbin Li

We propose a decomposition of constitutive relations into crack-driving and persistent portions, specifically designed for materials with anisotropic/orthotropic behavior in the phase field approach to fracture to account for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Vahid Ziaei-Rad , Mostafa Mollaali , Thomas Nagel , Olaf Kolditz , Keita Yoshioka

We present a dislocation density-based strain hardening model for single crystal copper through a systematic coarse-graining analysis of more than 200 discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD) simulations of plastic deformation under uniaxial…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-28 Sh. Akhondzadeh , Ryan B. Sills , Nicolas Bertin , Wei Cai

We introduce a dislocation density tensor and derive its kinematic evolution law from a phase field description of crystal deformations in three dimensions. The phase field crystal (PFC) model is used to define the lattice distortion,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-06 Vidar Skogvoll , Luiza Angheluta , Audun Skaugen , Marco Salvalaglio , Jorge Viñals

The present endeavor numerically exploits the use of a phase-field model to simulate and investigate fracture patterns, deformation mechanisms, damage, and mechanical responses in a human vertebra after the incision of pedicle screws under…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Deison Preve , Pietro Lenarda , Daniele Bianchi , Alessio Gizzi

A thermo-mechanical fracture modeling is proposed to address thermal failure issues, where the temperature field is calculated by a heat conduction model based on classical continuum mechanics (CCM), while the deformation field with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sitong Tao , Fei Han

We propose a novel variational phase-field model for fracture and fatigue in pseudoelastic shape memory alloys (SMAs). The model, developed in a one-dimensional setting, builds upon the Auricchio-Petrini constitutive formulation for SMAs…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Alma Brambilla , Laura De Lorenzis , Lorenza Petrini

Impacted with sufficiently large stress, a dense, initially liquid-like suspension can be forced into a solid-like state through the process of shear jamming. While the onset of shear jamming has been investigated extensively, less is known…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-25 Malcolm Slutzky , Alice Pelosse , Michael van der Naald , Heinrich M. Jaeger

Modeling hydrogen embrittlement (HE) is a long-standing engineering challenge, which has experienced significant developments in recent years. Yet, there is a gap in modeling the effect of the kinetics of hydrogen segregation at…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-08 Abdelrahman Hussein , Yann Charles , Jukka Kömi , Vahid Javaheri

This work presents a new adaptive approach for the numerical simulation of a phase-field model for fractures in nearly incompressible solids. In order to cope with locking effects, we use a recently proposed mixed form where we have a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Katrin Mang , Mirjam Walloth , Thomas Wick , Winnifried Wollner

We propose a novel variational phase-field model for fracture in anisotropic materials. The model is specifically designed to allow a more flexible calibration of crack nucleation than existing anisotropic fracture formulations, while…

We develop and analyse the first second-order phase-field model to combine melting and dissolution in multi-component flows. This provides a simple and accurate way to simulate challenging phase-change problems in existing codes.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Eric W. Hester , Louis-Alexandre Couston , Benjamin Favier , Keaton J. Burns , Geoffrey M. Vasil

In this article, a failure mode dependent and thermodynamically consistent continuum damage model with polynomial-based damage hardening functions is proposed for continuum damage modeling of laminated composite panels. The damage model…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Shubham Rai , Badri Prasad Patel

Phase-field fracture models provide a powerful approach to modeling fracture, potentially enabling the unguided prediction of crack growth in complex patterns. To ensure that only tensile stresses and not compressive stresses drive crack…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-24 Maryam Hakimzadeh , Noel Walkington , Carlos Mora-Corral , George Gazonas , Kaushik Dayal

The decomposition of oceanic flow into its balanced and unbalanced motions carries theoretical and practical significance for the oceanographic community. These two motions have distinct dynamical characteristics and affect the transport of…

In the last ten years, the phase-field method has gained much attention as a novel method to simulate fracture due to its straightforward way allowing to cover crack initiation and propagation without additional conditions. More recently,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-31 Martha Kalina , Tom Schneider , Jörg Brummund , Markus Kästner