Yihao Chen¹, Yongxing Shen^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.30, No.2, pp. 1-1, 2024, DOI:10.32604/icces.2024.011251

Abstract The phase field method for fracture has become mainstream for fracture simulation. It transforms the crack nucleation problem into a minimization problem of the sum of the elastic potential energy and the crack surface energy. Because of the biconvexity of its energy functional, there is an energy barrier between local minima with and without a crack, resulting it difficult for standard methods, such as the Newton method, to converge to a cracked solution when starting from a solid without crack, especially when the material and the geometry are uniform, even if current cracked solution with… More >

Zhi Wang¹, Jinming Cao¹, Zhonglei Liu¹, Yuhong Zhao^1,2,3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.1, pp. 213-228, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.055169 - 15 October 2024

Abstract Recent years, the polarization response of ferroelectrics has been entirely studied. However, it is found that the polarization may disappear gradually with the continually applied of electric field. In this paper, taking K_0.48Na_0.52NbO₃(KNN) as an example, it was demonstrated that the residual polarization began to decrease when the electric field frequency increased to a certain extent using a phase-field methods. The results showed that the content of out-of-plane domains increased first and then decreased with the increase of applied electric field frequency, the maximum polarization disappeared at high frequencies, and the hysteresis loop became elliptical. In More >

Zhao Zhang^1,*, Xiang Gao¹, Yifei Wang¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.29, No.3, pp. 1-1, 2024, DOI:10.32604/icces.2024.012115

Abstract Wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) reveals its high efficiency for the fabrications in comparison with laser additive manufacturing. To reveal the relationship between arc settings and the microstructural evolutions, phase field model and Monte Carlo model are established for the simulation of the microstructural evolutions and dislocation dynamics model is established for the simulation of the anisotropic properties in WAAM. Numerical results are compared with Experiments to validate the proposed models. The length/width ratio of the formed grains in solidification becomes smaller when the scanning speed is decreased or the input powder is increased. The… More >

Xiaozhou Xia¹, Changsheng Qin¹, Guangda Lu², Xin Gu^1,*, Qing Zhang¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.3, pp. 2257-2276, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.031238 - 15 December 2023

Abstract Accurate simulation of the cracking process caused by rust expansion of reinforced concrete (RC) structures plays an intuitive role in revealing the corrosion-induced failure mechanism. Considering the quasi-brittle fracture of concrete, the fracture phase field driven by the compressive-shear term is constructed and added to the traditional brittle fracture phase field model. The rationality of the proposed model is verified by a mixed fracture example under a shear displacement load. Then, the extended fracture phase model is applied to simulate the corrosion-induced cracking process of RC. The cracking patterns caused by non-uniform corrosion expansion are… More >

Yuxuan Ying¹, Wei Huang^1,*, Yu-E Ma¹, Fan Peng¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.27, No.4, pp. 1-3, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.010572

Abstract Intensive dynamic loadings are the main threats to the structural damage of protective structures and inner equipment, which has attracted a lot of attention in the field of advance impulsive resistance. Nanofluidic liquid foam (NLF) has become a novel and efficient energy absorption system due to its reusable energy absorption, ultra-high load transfer, and high energy absorption ratio. In order to solve the current problem that the energy absorption mechanism of NLF is still unclear, this paper conducted a systematic experimental study on the dynamic compression and energy absorption behaviours of NLF. The quasi-static cyclic… More >