Abstract: The dominant and higher-order asymptotic stress and displacement fields surrounding a stationary crack embedded in a ductile functionally graded material subjected to antiplane shear loading are ...

Abstract: A numerical model to study the fatigue crack retardation in a self-healing material (, 2001, Nature, 409, pp. 794–797) is presented. The approach relies on a combination of cohesive modeling ...

Abstract: A spatially varying cohesive failure model is used to simulate quasi-static fracture in functionally graded polymers. A key aspect of this paper is that all mechanical properties and cohesive ...