3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Validating Griffith fracture propagation in the phase-field approach to fracture: The case of Mode III by means of the trousers test
F. Kamarei, E. Breedlove, O. Lopez-Pamies
At present, there is an abundance of results showing that the phase-field approach to fracture in elastic brittle materials -- when properly accounting for material strength -- des…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Nucleation of fracture: The first-octant evidence against classical variational phase-field models
Farhad Kamarei, John E. Dolbow, Oscar Lopez-Pamies
As a companion work to [1], this Note presents a series of simple formulae and explicit results that illustrate and highlight why classical variational phase-field models cannot po…
cond-mat.soft2024
The poker-chip experiments of synthetic elastomers
Farhad Kamarei, Aditya Kumar, Oscar Lopez-Pamies
In a recent study, Kumar and Lopez-Pamies (J. Mech. Phys. Solids 150: 104359, 2021) have provided a complete quantitative explanation of the famed poker-chip experiments of Gent an…