This work aims to introduce an alternative technique to address the fracture process of brittle and quasi-brittle materials under the Material Point Method (MPM) framework. With this purpose the eigensoftening algorithm, ...

The present investigation is concerned with evaluation of the impact fracture toughness of novel blends based on commercial polypropylene homopolymer (PPH) and elastomeric polyolefin (POEs). At room temperature and high ...

Abstract This paper addresses the modeling of fracture in quasi-brittle materials using a phase-field approach to the description of crack topology. Within the computational mechanics community, several studies have treated ...