Yuan Mei1,2, Daokui Li1,2, Shiming Zhou1,2,*, Zhibin Shen1,2
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.145, No.1, pp. 153-187, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.070252
- 30 October 2025
Abstract Viscoelastic solids, such as composite propellants, exhibit significant time and rate dependencies, and their fracture processes display high levels of nonlinearity. However, the correlation between crack propagation and viscoelastic energy dissipation in these materials remains unclear. Therefore, accurately modeling and understanding of their fracture behavior is crucial for relevant engineering applications. This study proposes a novel viscoelastic phase-field model. In the numerical implementation, the adopted adaptive time-stepping iterative strategy effectively accelerates the coupling iteration efficiency between the phase-field and the displacement field. Moreover, all unknown parameters in the model, including the form of the phase-field More >