idealised approaches regarding the boundary conditions prevail in the literature and few researchers have considered unified models that incorporate those parts of the mechanism that drive, guide
Nearly thirty years since its inception, the combined finite-discrete element method (FDEM) has made remarkable strides in becoming a mainstream analysis tool within the field of Computational Mechanics. FDEM was developed to effectively “bridge the gap” between two disparate Computational Mechanics ap...
Spider silk, cellular protein networks, muscle fibers and collagenous materials such as skin, connective tissue and bone are examples of materials that have exceptional mechanical properties that may derive from their particular modular or nano-composite architecture [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], ...
These world-class telescopes represent decades of innovative thinking, with clever design strategies and brilliant software solutions aimed at hunting down answers to cosmic queries. Though the astronomer peering thoughtfully into an eyepiece is a scenario from the past (data is processed digitally now)...
Fracturing phenomena in natural and engineered systems is studied extensively experimentally, theoretically, and computationally. Here we focus on two promising approaches: phase-field (PF) and peridynamics (PD) for the computational modeling of fractures in materials. Both approaches are distinct from ea...