International Journal of Fracture - Special Issue: Finite Fracture Mechanics and Phase-Field Modeling of Fracture - Towards Applications
Guest Editor:
Prof. Vladislav Mantiĉ, University of Seville, Spain
Submission Status: Open - By Invitation Only | Submission Deadline: 30 April 2024
Summary and scope
This Special Issue contains a collection of papers based on the original contributions of the 13 PhD Theses developed under the project NEWFRAC - Innovative Training Network, funded by H020 Marie Curie-Sklodowska Actions. The NEWFRAC project is mainly focused on the theoretical analysis, computational implementations, experimental testing and applications of two of the currently intensively developed methodologies of computational fracture mechanics: the coupled criterion of finite fracture mechanics and the phase field models of fracture. Its applications include studies of onset and propagation of cracks in long and short fiber reinforced composites, photovoltaic panels, bones, ceramics, and additive manufacturing.
Submission guidelines
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors at: https://www.springer.com/journal/10704/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit via the online submission site and select article type “SI - Finite Fracture Mechanics and Phase-Field Modeling of Fracture - Towards Applications”.
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.
Meet the Guest Editor:Vladislav Mantič is a Professor of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis at the University of Seville. He previously worked at the Technical University of Košice and at the Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice. He graduated in Mathematical Engineering from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague and obtained his PhD from the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Currently he coordinates the European research project NewFrac (this opens in a new tab) focused on the development of Phase Field Models of fracture and the Coupled Criterion of Finite Fracture Mechanics. He is working on the computational implementation of the Coupled Criterion of Finite Fracture Mechanics, in the singularity analysis of corners and cracks with spring boundary or interface conditions, and in the prediction of crack onset and propagation in composite materials. Some of his achievements in the field of fracture mechanics are mentioned here. He deduced a relationship between the fracture-mode-mixity angles based on the Stress Intensity Factors and the Energy Release Rates in interface cracks between dissimilar linear elastic isotropic adherents. He introduced two alternative formulations of the Coupled Criterion, the first based on the minimization of the envelope of the stress criterion and energy criterion functions, and the second based on the minimization of the total energy functional subjected to a stress condition in a load stepping scheme. He proposed a general and semi-analytic matrix formalism for singularity analysis of anisotropic linear elastic multi-material corners considering many types of boundary and interface conditions and covering also frictional sliding contact.