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Phase field description of fracture is a very promising approach for simulating crack initiation, propagation, merging and branching. This method greatly reduces the implementation complexity, compared with discrete descriptions of cracks. In this work, we provide an overview of phase field models for quasistatic and dynamic cases. Afterward, we present useful vectors and matrices for the implementation of this method in two and three dimensions.
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Foundation item: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11402146), and the Young 1 000 Talent Program of China
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Shen, Y., Mollaali, M., Li, Y. et al. Implementation Details for the Phase Field Approaches to Fracture. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.) 23, 166–174 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-018-1922-0
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Key words
- phase field approach to fracture
- variational fracture
- brittle fracture
- dynamic fracture
- variational integrator