Computational Fracture and Damage Modeling of Engineered Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanics of Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2023) | Viewed by 1667
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computational mechanics; moving boundary problems; multiphysics problems; composites and functionally graded materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Multiphysics analyses of damage initiation and subsequent growth in natural solids and engineered materials such as composites, functionally graded materials, etc. are important to guide the design and ensure the sustainability of engineering structures. The current understanding of damage initiation and growth in materials, especially engineered materials, is incomplete due to the complexity of the damage processes caused by the underlying material inhomogeneity. Moreover, the technical capabilities of current numerical techniques to model such damage initiation and growth are not sufficiently robust to model the complete evolution of damage processes starting from initiation, growth, propagation that eventually leads to the failure of engineering structures. This has fueled research on novel discretization techniques such as enrichment methods, variational fracture, local and non-local damage models, cohesive zone models, and other multiscale approaches.
The guest editors of this Special Issue aim to attract contributions from practicing engineers, mathematicians, and computational mechanics, among others, on computational approaches to model fracture and damage in engineered materials, such as composites and functionally graded materials subjected to quasi-static and dynamic loading conditions, as well as both mechanical and multi-physics damage modeling. The topics of interest include but are not limited to enrichment methods, mesh-free methods, phase field models, computational homogenization and reduced order models, spatiotemporal techniques to model multiphysics processes, regularized models, and stability analyses.
Dr. Sundararajan Natarajan
Dr. Ean T. Ooi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- damage
- fracture
- multiphysics
- plasticity
- phase field modeling
- enrichment techniques
- local and non-local damage models
- composite materials
- functionally graded materials
- damage growth
- crack closure
- multiphysics damage
- mesh-free methods
- multiscale modeling
