A predictive phase-field approach for cover cracking in corroded concrete elements

A mixed-mode dependent interface and phase-field damage model for solids with inhomogeneities

“…The development continued by definition of a robust computational Phase-Field Model (PFM) with a rigorous thermodynamical background in [8][9][10]. Since then, a lot of enhancements of the phase-field algorithms appeared which tried to specify particular problems of the approach related to the characteristics of the computational model: scale parameter related to the width of the regularised crack, degradation function characterising the damage in the material [11,12], its effect on cracking process in various materials [13][14][15][16], crack nucleation conditions and subsequent processes [17][18][19][20] etc. The variety of degradation functions is frequently explained by particular material behaviour, properties of the computational approach and many times they are supported by empirical results.…”