Simulating brittle and ductile response of alumina ceramics under dynamic loading

Alumina ceramic is often used in armour systems. This material is known to have a brittle response under tensile loading, while a ductile response is found when sufficiently high pressures are reached. During projectile impact a ceramic material experiences both tensile loading and high pressures, hence fails in both a brittle and ductile way....

Failure in plain and reinforced concrete - An analysis of crack width and crack spacing

On gradient-enhanced damage and plasticity models for failure in quasi-brittle and frictional materials

Some future directions in computational failure mechanics

Fundamental issues in finite element analyses of localization of deformation

SOLUTION METHODS FOR LOCALIZATION IN FRACTURE DYNAMICS