Abstract: A complete failure process involves continuous and discontinuous modes that are often modeled separately via smeared and discrete approaches. This paper investigates the transition between continuous and discontinuous modes ...

Abstract: The content of this review consists of recent developments covering an advanced treatment of multiple crack problems in plane elasticity. Several elementary solutions are highlighted, which are ...

Abstract: The relationship between material softening and structural softening is investigated through the use of a model problem in one dimension. If the size of the softening zone is large the structural ...

Abstract: This investigation explores a method for predicting deformation in the vicinity of interfaces of dissimilar materials. Instead of using a slide‐line algorithm or interface elements, a new nonlocal approach for simulating ...