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Nonlocal Models in Fracture and Damage

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In this special issue the contributing authors present the latest advances in simulating fracture and damage with a variety of approaches, including peridynamics, phase-field, atomistic, discrete-element method, and cohesive-zone models. The importance of nonlocality in fracture and damage is emphasized by many of these articles. In many special applications, however, models based on classical approaches are also shown to be able to offer insight into the studied phenomenon. The collection of 19 articles is split between two volumes: Volume 244, Issue 1–2 and Volume 245 Issue 1. In what follows, we briefly describe each of the contributed articles and place them in the context of modeling and simulation of fracture and damage.

Editors

  • Florin Bobaru Florin Bobaru , 

    Florin Bobaru

    Florin Bobaru is a Professor and Hergenrader Distinguished Scholar of Mechanical Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his B.S. and M.S. from University of Bucharest (Mathematics and Mechanics) in 1995 and 1997, and Ph.D. degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University in 2001. He is one of the first contributors to peridynamic modeling for dynamic fracture, damage, and corrosion.

  • Ziguang Chen Ziguang Chen  &

    Ziguang Chen

    Ziguang Chen received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, in 2012. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the same university from 2013 to 2017. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. His research is focused on damage and fracture, stress corrosion cracking, peridynamics, and mechanics of nanomaterials and nanostructures.

  • Ugo Galvanetto Ugo Galvanetto

    Ugo Galvanetto

    Ugo Galvanetto received his Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering from the Universities of Bologna and Padova, Italy, in 1993. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Dept. of Aeronautics at Imperial College London where he was then Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader from 1999 to 2008. He is currently a professor of aircraft structures in the Dept. of Industrial Engineering at Padova University, Italy. His current research is focused on damage and fracture, peridynamics, and implementation of peridynamic based computational methods & development based on computational mechanics of innovative items of personal protective equipment.

Articles (19 in this collection)