Collections and calls for papers

Many advanced materials and structures have emerged in recent years to meet the sophisticated demands for high strength, lower density, high ductility, high conductivity and other superior mechanical or phys...

This Special Issue contains a collection of papers based on the original contributions of the 13 PhD Theses developed under the project NEWFRAC - Innovative Training Network, funded by H020 Marie Curie-Sklod...

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 met...

More than twenty years after their introduction as approximations of the variational theory of brittle fracture (Francfort and Marigo, 1998), phase-field models of fracture (Bourdin et al., 2000) have emerge...

This Special Issue invites contributions on the relevance and uses of fracture, fatigue, and damage. Original contributions in the broad areas of structural integrity pertaining to brittle, ductile, polymers...